Tuva- spoiler

[Charles Albert]

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
*xöömij*, *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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