Re: Helmholtz, Eno, Partch, and frequency

[Allan Hoeltje <ahoeltje@best.com>]

This gives me an idea for a sound installation.  A bunch of glass tubes of
various lengths and diameters, each filled with a different colored liquid 
which
slowly (and randomly?) raises and lowers, each tube has a microphone 
running to
its own looper unit, each looper has a different loop length.  Place this 
is a
public setting, like a coffee shop, and let it go.  A Helmholtz/Eno Organ?

-Allan


Larry Tremblay wrote:

> > Interesting you mention Hemholtz.  I'm reading a 1936 book "Science and
> > Music" which uses Hemholtz's "Harmonic Resonance Chambers" as examples 
>and
> a
> > basis for discussing the differences between a tone (tuning fork) and a
> > musical note (many harmonic properties.) The resonance chambers were 
>glass
> > tubes filled with a differing amouts of liquid, with a pipette at the 
>end
> > you could stick in your ear to listen to.  These tubes would
> sympathetically
> > resonate with whatever sound was being produced near them and thus you
> could
> > find the harmonic components of any sound by creating the sound and
> > listening to which resonators were active.
>
> Great, a Helmholtz fan! BTW, Edgar Varese was inspired
> by Helmholtz's experiments with sirens. The resonant
> chambers experiments inspired Harry Partch and other to
> build similar devices.
>