Gradin.com http://www.gradin.com It's like family, only weirder... Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Musings for the week of 2012-05-14 http://www.gradin.com/2012/05/14/musings-for-the-week-of-2012-05-14/ http://www.gradin.com/2012/05/14/musings-for-the-week-of-2012-05-14/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 10:00:00 +0000 Olaf http://www.gradin.com/2012/05/14/musings-for-the-week-of-2012-05-14/
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  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/vhssYV9l A Simple Song #
  • Checked in at Fiserv http://t.co/vUm3Uw5J #
  • I uploaded a @YouTube video http://t.co/SgUnUw07 Enota's Got Talent: I'm Yours #

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  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/k0h03LJ7 Ranarim – Maj vare välkommen (Majvisa) (live, 2008) #

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  • Effn' carriers. Amazon Wireless screwed me in AT&T order. 3G/4G SIM debacle – I'd be out $50 for 2 SIMs if I don't just wait for new phone #
  • Almost raged, but AmznWireless came to my rescue. They'll exempt me the $250 IDP charge for my second Nokia Lumia 900. #
  • Unfortunately, that means more delay in receiving said phone. #
  • 3rd day, 3rd call to AmznWireless. Serendip – I get the same rep as last night and we discuss my woes. Should have phone by Mon or Tues #
  • Somewhere in all of this there's a case against online phone purchasing. Picking one up in the store is a guaranteed transaction! #

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  • I just signed up for the O'Reilly Webcast: Intro to Gestural Interfaces with the Microsoft Kinect http://t.co/3cbUTgFQ via @oreillymedia #
  • Just back from Pensacola Beach – the go-to vacation spot with the family. If for nothing else, having kids means we get a Spring Break again #
  • I can't tell U how much I h8 carriers. Despite that, I've ordered 2 Lumia 900's that I'm stuck w/ 4 the next 2 years. Crossing my fingers… #
  • My 9-yr-old learned to ride in Feb. Now he's good for a 6-mile tour with family! How awesome is that?!? #
  • Easter is named for the importance put upon the goddess of dawn, "Eostre." Happy Easter, and good morning! #
  • I ate 2 huge meals today for Easter celebration. Unfortunately, the 2nd I couldn't manage more then a 'normal' plate. And some pumpkin pie. #

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  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/WcB7noMs Castlegore Flute Band #

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  • I just gave 5 stars to WordPress Gwinnett! http://t.co/dTNGItDi #

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  • Jazzed about going to see Henry Rollins tomorrow night in Athens! @henryrollins #
  • Started Kung Fu again after a year's break. I pro'ly should've taken it easier in there… #

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  • I liked a @YouTube video http://t.co/TA16SSq7 Gotye – Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) – official #

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    I’ve been listening to a song by Mercan Dede for sometime now, “Book of Wings.” In it is a featured instrument – apparently Asian in nature (in my mind) – of which I knew nothing. It’s a hollow, simultaneously wooden and brassy, sound. There’s a distinctively melancholy and mysterious feeling to it. If sound can be old, this resonates with something ancient and nearly forgotten.

    I am also a big fan of the Avatar cartoon series and remembered that Uncle Iroh once played an instrument that sounded like what I was looking for. After some quick searching, I found the YouTube video I was looking for.

    As I searched for references to the “Tsungi Horn,” I’m met with the Avatar forums in which one contributor quotes a track team member from the show.

    the tsungi horn had to be a cross between a woodwind and a brass instrument. we played that theme on a duduk (armenian reed instrument) and then performed a computer process called convolution where we combined the timbre of a trombone with our duduk performance. convolution can sound very natural if done correctly. one of the most interesting challenges of avatar is to create new sounds that sound old…

    Aaargh! I was so excited to finally have an answer to this riddle, only to be met with a myth. On the upside of things, I read into the duduk and found that the Tsungi Horn is largely qualitative of the duduk. It’s missing the brassy resonance on the high end, however.

    While possible that I could pick up one of these and learn to play it a bit, I think it would benefit greatly from circular breathing. This is something I will need more practice on as I’m awful at it! It seems a rarity that my nasal passages are clear enough for me to do this efficiently.

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