Tuva- spoiler boy howdy

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That throat singing, that note, that modality, carries sailing us through AtD's climactic pages.
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From: "Charles Albert" <cfalbert at gmail.com>
> On 11/30/06, Jordan Fink <jordan at riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> > So, the writting is tuvan.
> >
> > what a nice set of convergences for tuva:
> >
> > -first there is the location: up-stream from where the meteor hit
> > -closeness to the mythical land of Shambala
> > -location in the center of asia
> > -association with Richard Feynman and thus feynman diagrams (i know that
> > -the diagrams originated in the 1970s but they are so similar to vectors)
> > -association with shamanism
> > -upsidedown stamps which were NOT for postage but were sold directly to
> > collectors (much like the World's Fair Silver Dollers and the World's Fair
> > Commenorative Stamps which were used to raise congressional fund for the
> > World's fiar)
> > -The upsidedown stamps also remind me of the upsidedown delta, known as
> > the Directional derivative, part of Gauss's law and the Maxwell Field
> > Equations.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Not mentioned....
> 
> "Among the many ways the pastoralists interact with and represent their
> aural environment, one stands out for its sheer ingenuity: a remarkable
> singing technique in which a single vocalist produces two distinct tones
> simultaneously. One tone is a low, sustained fundamental pitch, similar to
> the drone of a bagpipe. The second is a series of flutelike harmonics, which
> resonate high above the drone and may be musically stylized to represent
> such sounds as the whistle of a bird, the syncopated rhythms of a mountain
> stream or the lilt of a cantering horse...."
> 
> http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00080AA2-BA32-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
> 
> "To an outsider, the most striking music in Tuva is that which the Tuvans
> call *khoomei*, from a Mongolian word that means 'throat.'
> *Khoomei*(sometimes transliterated as
> *x��mij*, *xomei*, or *hoomi*) is generally translated as 'throat-singing,'
> but Western musicians and researchers have also referred to the same
> phenomenon as overtone singing, biphonic and diphonic singing, and harmonic
> singing. The principal in all cases is the same: a single vocalist produces
> two, and occasionally three, distinct notes simultaneously. By precise
> movements of the lips, tongue, jaw, velum, and larynx, singers can
> selectively intensify vocally produced harmonics." (From the liner notes to
> *Voices from the Center of Asia*, Smithsonian Folkways)"
> 
> http://www.ubu.com/ethno/soundings/tuva.html
> 
> 
> 
> Echoing the refractive properties of Iceland Spar and Blinky Morgan's
> eyes....
> 
> love,
> cfa
> 
> 
> 
> 
> (this last one is not so farfetched: remember the new york department
> > store that Dally goes to? it was called the i,k,j. something (i don't have
> > the book infront of me) and was where she was trying to plot the location
> > of her mother who had dissappeared into the invisable.
> >
> > -j
> >
> 


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