Re: OT: giant pipes down Portola Avenue in Santa Cruz and other natural reverbs

["David Potter" <papadave55@hotmail.com>]

Om and In......Papa Dave

A couple of natural man made resonant zones are the Wawona Tunnel in 
Yosemite, Calif....   1 mile long....I've played guitar, Banjo, varius 
horns 
and singing....very log and cool reverb/echo...also colors change at the 
end 
of the tunnel if you've eaten enough mescalito cactus...also the Pinnacles 
National Park in Soledad,Ca...hike to the top and then sing or play a good 
loud flute...the echoes roll and separate and you can hear 3 or 4 or 5 
ways 
that the echoes roll out of the Pinnacles Mountains.  For the more 
adventurous the Grand Canyon has amazing echos all through it as you might 
imagine... voice and my cow horn make great echoes and seem to roll on 
forever...... and Machu Pichu in Peru has astonishing echoes as well... I 
lived there for several months and in the Sacred Valley of the Incas below 
Machu Pichu.

Burning Man in 5 days.....Om and Out  Papa Dave

>regarding Chris Muir's remeniscences of giant
>concrete pipes down Portola Ave in Santa Cruz,
>
>I remember them very well and wanted to let anybody know that there is a
>very, very cool
>and new reverberant space right on the Pacific Garden Mall that I just
>discovered.
>
>It is a long hallway that is chained off in the building that now houses 
>the
>Oneill surf and clothing shop across from the new cinemas:   you have to
>walk right up to the
>chain link fence and suddenly there is the most beautiful and very long
>reverb present:  I have tried overtone singing,  frame drumming and flute
>playing into this space.
>
>The magic of it is that from ten feet away you dont' even hear 
>it......when
>you are right at the chain link fence it is completley mesmerizing.
>
>Here while back, I tried to get a found sound group going on the web and
>tried to get people interested in posting a list of natural and man made
>timbral phenomena that
>we audionauts could discover while travelling around the country.........I
>didn't get much
>interest at all, but I would like to propose this as an off topic thread:
>
>WHAT KICK ASS SONIC ANOMALIES DO YOU KNOW OF IN YOUR HOMETOWN........WHAT
>WIERD ASSED PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE OR SCULPTURES OR PLUMBING EXISTS TO BE
>STRUCK OR BLOWN ON OR OTHERWISE PUSHED INTO RESONANCE........
>
>..........there..........the challenge is out there (which I am sometimes,
>as well  ;-)
>
>yours,  loop.pool (aka, Rick Walker)
>


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