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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Tim Nelson wrote: > Ummmm, check out the very last paragraph of this... > > <http://www.wirenh.com/stories/1605> "And most threatening of all, Alden Ulery constructed a swollen drone of loops and live didgeridoo. Alden confided that he had hoped to get the loops down to 57 octaves below middle C, a vibration that would have made the entire audience "shit their pants." The equipment didn't cooperate, and the Tong's audience-and WFNX's-were spared. Maybe next time! " He was thinking of what, in some circles, is referred to as "the Brown Note". http://www.crmav.com/63/meyer_sound_to_test_the_brown_note_shit_yourself_thread_in_m.shtml He was thinking of something else: What he actually referred to was probably a remembrance of a recent news article, mentioned on this list a few months ago, that 57 octaves down from B flat is the sound this massive black hole in the Perseid cluster makes. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2003/09sep_blackholesounds.htm "Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found, for the first time, sound waves from a supermassive black hole. The "note" is the deepest ever detected from any object in our Universe. The tremendous amounts of energy carried by these sound waves may solve a longstanding problem in astrophysics. ... In musical terms, the pitch of the sound generated by the black hole translates into the note of B flat. But, a human would have no chance of hearing this cosmic performance because the note is 57 octaves lower than middle-C. For comparison, a typical piano contains only about seven octaves. At a frequency over a million billion times deeper than the limits of human hearing, this is the deepest note ever detected from an object in the Universe." Now that's dub. Steve B Phasmatodea http://www.phasmatodea.net/ Subscape Annex http://www.subscapeannex.com/