| Monday 07 / 19 |
Butoh book 2nd edition alive
The 2nd edition of Towards the Bowels of the
Earth: Butoh Writhing in Perspectives is now available. This new
version has been thoroughly revised and reworked, and comes with a new
chapter in search of loose threads and broader vistas.
In addition to the electronic version there is proper printed book version to hold and dance with.
table of contents
ordering and preview |
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| Thursday 05 / 06 |
Healthier states of mind
A couple letters-to-the-editor from the April 29-May 5th Westender, a downtown (West End) Vancouver weekly. These come in response to an anti-noise piece the week before.
Pack your bags, 'noise' whiners
I've had it with people complain-
ing about noise downtown. I live
downtown, and yes, it is noisy.
There are several bars in my
neighborhood that were there
long before residential buildings
were erected. There is traffic.
There are movies being shot.
There is revelry at all hours. If
you did not anticipate these
things when the "let's move
downtown" lightbulb went off in
your head then you are an idiot.
The downtown core of any vi-
brant city is going to be noisy,
and at times, very noisy. No one is
forced to live downtown and
there are many quieter (and
cheaper) places to live. Stop your
bitching, and start packing.
by e-mail, April 26
Stay sane, change
your state of mind
You know, I have lived in the
West End for over four years. At
first, sure, I was annoyed by con-
struction noise, garbage trucks
in the early morn, and all that
general noise pollution. But then
I got used to it. And now I don't
even notice it any more. I don't
want to spend all my time being
upset. This is a progressive city!
Things can't go my way all the
time. Sometimes garbage has to
be picked up early in the morn-
ing. I'd rather that than it sitting
around forever. Let all that irri-
tating noise become white noise.
I'm serious, it works for me. It's a
state of mind. Try not to let your
mind stick on these things, peo-
ple, and it probably won't bother
you so much. Honestly, laugh at
other people's idiocy if you have
to and shrug it off. Because idiots
will be around 'til the end of
time. There's no reason to let
them ruin your life.
by e-mail, April 22 |
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| Wednesday 04 / 21 |
More complaints from back home
Column One of the LA Times today:
Honk if You Love Quiet.
"Urban America is getting noisier," said Jack Freytag, director of Charles Salter & Associates, a San Francisco acoustics consulting firm. But in terms of remedies, he said, the problem "has been on the back burner because local communities can't get it together technically to understand the problem."...
...European and Asian nations, as well as the World Health Organization, have set goals for sharply reducing noise from all sources and tightening restrictions on motor vehicles in the next few years. Japan will force its auto makers to reduce car noise by more than 50% by equipping them with quieter tires and exhaust systems.
The U.S. has no national noise policy. States and localities are left to devise their own standards. The Environmental Protection Agency was empowered in the early 1970s to set federal noise rules on everything from lawn mowers to cars. But President Reagan canceled funding for the program in 1982 and shut the EPA's Office of Noise Abatement...
...Pickups, large SUVs and other light trucks, which now account for half of all new vehicles sold in the U.S., produce twice as much noise as cars, even at relatively low speeds, according to acoustics experts and auto industry representatives.... |
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| Tuesday 04 / 20 |
Sonocytology - cell sounds
In recent experiments using the frontier science of nanotechnology, the researchers have found evidence that yeast cells give off one kind of squeal while mammalian cells may give off another. The research, though still preliminary, is potentially "revolutionary," as one scientist puts it, and a possible, admittedly far-off medical application, is already being pursued: someday, the thinking goes, listening to the sounds your cells make might tell a doctor, before symptoms occur, whether you're healthy or about to be ill.... (more)
(Thanks to Michael Noble for posting this link) |
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| Thursday 04 / 15 |
Neat Stuff
Sky Ear will be a one-night event in which a glowing "cloud" of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sky.
The cloud will be made of one thousand large helium balloons each responding to the electromagnetic environment (created by distant storms, mobile phones, police and ambulance radios, television broadcasts, etc.) with coloured blue, red and yellow lights. ..
Meanwhile, the first consumer retailers of audio spotlights are also popping up. |
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