Subject: Re: Latest First From: Brent Edwards <brent(at)edwards.net> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 22:52:47 -0800This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01C524FA.B6CCB4A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I believe the reference you are looking for is: H. Fletcher and R. H. Galt, "The perception of speech and its relation = to telephony," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 22, 89- 151 (1950). ----- Original Message -----=20 From: leo sullivan=20 To: AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA=20 Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Latest First The Latest Firsts! : NPR for Expedience. Article: >All Things Considered, March 1, 2002 =B7 German composer and physicist Oskar Sala has died at the age of 91. He developed a device invented in 1929 called the trautonium, which = was billed as the first electronic musical instrument. Many people know its sound from its prominent part in the soundtrack = to the Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. < includes sound file : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D1139173 * * * The concept of 'first electronic musical instruments' is as subject to = nationalist Chauvinisms as the varieties of the first "inventor of = radio". Note NPR's use of "first" together with past subjunctive, in the = construction "...which was billed as the first electronic..." Why? NPR = is always practicing whatever "consensus building" tricks a modern = National Public Broadcaster employs for the color-coded terrorism alarm = we enjoy.=20 [[NPR today had a full 40 minutes of brilliantly "on-point", = articulate, businesslike, =E5nd manly National-Security-prepped = "callers" praising the NeoCon's latest proposed rep to the UN... = alternating, fairly and in lock step, with the allegedly random and = sexually segregated mush-mouths they use to represent the opposition- = the "culture of fear", the whiners. Who knew NeoCon idol Bush ever had = such a strong unbroken string of "unconventional diplomatic victories"?! = Get used to it, I guess.] Anyway, it may have been somebody's First, but not 'ours'. [1929 puts the Trautonium maybe 60 years late to be any of the "First = electronic musical instruments" in use in the country of Edison and = Tesla. Actually, "Trautonium" must be the last e-istrument to be = revived... [http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ <"120 years of Electronic Music"> = ]] Such a years-out-of-date instrument may explain an inexplicable warping in the anti-avian sound of the crazed "Birds" in that film. It wasn't at all just crapped-on, melting = celluloid. * * * HERE IS A MORE politically redeeming NPR feature - yet equally offensive for audience-manipulating value in its appeal to elites... and the primitive appeal of cute robots. In this case, 'Robbie the Robot', and vintage 'outsider' muses : "_First LAdy_ of Electronic Music" Bebe Barron and her partner Louis Barron." [no big firsts there either; But, what about gold-plated W. Carlos = even? Not a lady I suppose?] "The couple composed, entirely without screen credit, the 1956 Academy Award nominated score to FORBIDDEN PLANET- and a number of other important works." These works include wonderful, highly original music like the compelling and joyous score to CBS Radio Workshop's 1956, Huxley-informed reading of BRAVE NEW WORLD, also uncredited; a 1952 film featuring Anais Nin, "Bells of Atlantis"; and a year of tape work for John Cage's fascinating = 4-minutes-of-a-1950-that-never-was, the "WILLIAMS MIX" - as well as more unheard original work, rotting in = storage. Apparently Hollywood's union rules do not allow pioneer electronic composer/engineers to be credited - or even acknowledged, much less cash in, until well after they are gone. Anais Nin reading in film clip; photo gallery; sound file : http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D4486840 >LeOSulllivan <> Berkeley <> USSA We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in = blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to = stop there. -Dana Gould >o> >o> >o> LeOSulllivan <> USSA It=92s time to move in for the kill. -E. Nadelmann, Drug Policy = Alliance, 3Feb 2005 ------=_NextPart_000_002B_01C524FA.B6CCB4A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dwindows-1252"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1479" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I believe the reference you are looking for = is:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>H. Fletcher and R. H. Galt, "The perception of = speech and its=20 relation to telephony," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 22, 89-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>151 (1950).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Dhilarleo(at)UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU=20 href=3D"mailto:hilarleo(at)UCLINK.BERKELEY.EDU">leo sullivan</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3DAUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA=20 href=3D"mailto:AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA">AUDITORY(at)LISTS.MCGILL.CA</A> = </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, March 09, 2005 = 10:09=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Latest First</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>The Latest Firsts! : NPR for=20 Expedience.<BR><BR>Article:<BR>>All Things Considered, March 1, = 2002=20 =B7<BR>German composer and physicist Oskar Sala has died at the age of = 91.<BR>He=20 developed a device invented in 1929 called the trautonium, which was = billed as=20 the first electronic musical instrument.<BR>Many people know its sound = from=20 its prominent part in the soundtrack to the Alfred Hitchcock's The = Birds.=20 <<BR>includes sound file=20 = :<BR>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D1139173<BR><B= R>* *=20 *<BR>The concept of 'first electronic musical instruments' is as = subject to=20 nationalist Chauvinisms as the varieties of the first "inventor of = radio".=20 Note NPR's use of "first" together with past subjunctive, in the = construction=20 "...which was billed as the first electronic..." Why? NPR is always = practicing=20 whatever "consensus building" tricks a modern National Public = Broadcaster=20 employs for the color-coded terrorism alarm we enjoy. <BR>[[NPR today = had a=20 full 40 minutes of brilliantly "on-point", articulate, businesslike, = =E5nd manly=20 National-Security-prepped "callers" praising the NeoCon's latest=20 proposed rep to the UN... alternating, fairly and in lock step, = with the=20 allegedly random and<?fontfamily><?param Lucida Grande> = <?/fontfamily>sexually=20 segregated mush-mouths they use to represent the opposition- the = "culture of=20 fear", the whiners. Who knew NeoCon idol Bush ever had such a strong = unbroken=20 string of "unconventional diplomatic victories"?! Get used to it, I=20 guess.]<BR>Anyway, it may have been somebody's First, but not=20 'ours'.<BR><BR>[1929 puts the Trautonium maybe 60 years late to be any = of the=20 "First electronic musical instruments" in use in the country of Edison = and=20 Tesla. Actually, "Trautonium" must be the last e-istrument to be=20 revived...<BR>[http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/ <"120 years of = Electronic=20 Music"> ]]<BR>Such a years-out-of-date instrument may explain<BR>an = inexplicable warping in the anti-avian sound of the crazed<BR>"Birds" = in that=20 film. It wasn't at all just crapped-on, melting celluloid.<BR><BR>* *=20 *<BR>HERE IS A MORE politically redeeming NPR feature<BR>- yet equally = offensive for audience-manipulating value<BR>in its appeal to = elites... and=20 the primitive appeal of cute robots.<BR>In this case, 'Robbie the = Robot', and=20 vintage 'outsider' muses :<BR><BR>"_First LAdy_ of Electronic Music" = Bebe=20 Barron and her partner<BR>Louis Barron."<BR>[no big firsts there = either; But,=20 what about gold-plated W. Carlos even? Not a lady I suppose?]<BR>"The = couple=20 composed, entirely without screen credit, the 1956<BR>Academy Award = nominated=20 score to FORBIDDEN PLANET-<BR>and a number of other important=20 works."<BR><BR>These works include wonderful, highly original = music<BR>like=20 the compelling and joyous score to<BR>CBS Radio Workshop's 1956,=20 Huxley-informed reading of BRAVE NEW WORLD,<BR>also uncredited;<BR>a = 1952 film=20 featuring Anais Nin, "Bells of Atlantis"; and<BR>a year of tape work = for John=20 Cage's fascinating 4-minutes-of-a-1950-that-never-was,<BR>the = "WILLIAMS MIX" -=20 as well as more unheard original work, rotting in = storage.<BR><BR>Apparently=20 Hollywood's union rules do not allow pioneer<BR>electronic = composer/engineers=20 to be credited -<BR>or even acknowledged, much less cash in,<BR>until = well=20 after they are gone.<BR><BR>Anais Nin reading in film clip; photo = gallery;=20 sound file=20 = :<BR>http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3D4486840<BR><B= R>>LeOSulllivan=20 <> Berkeley <> USSA<BR>We all enter this world in the same = way:=20 naked; screaming; soaked in blood.<BR>But if you live your life right, = that=20 kind of thing doesn't have to stop there. -Dana Gould<BR>>o> = >o>=20 >o><BR>LeOSulllivan <> USSA<BR><BR>It=92s time to move in = for the=20 kill. -E. 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