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Sorry all, x10,000,
I thought I double-checked that and was sending to only one recipient...
alas, my life is an open book.

not the first, probably not the last,
Jason


On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:24 PM, jason jay stevens wrote:

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> Hey Eric,
> I am in San Antonio now...wow what a ride the last six months have  
> been!
> Just, in fact, getting over the flu, my welcoming present, I  
> suppose, but also a fully justified signal--if you can call  
> slamming the brakes a "signal"-- from my body to take a break!
>
> Been meaning to drop you a line, but I'm waiting for some photos of  
> the gallery I finished last month at the Hands-On that I'd like to  
> share with you.  The fellow who's taken my position is also a great  
> photographer, and a very dependable guy, and he keeps promising me  
> these photos--but they've yet to materialize...kinda' frustrating,  
> and I shutter at the thought that my second-rate, taken-at-the-last- 
> minute pics will have to do...more to come, as they say.
>
> Hope all is well in the Big Apple.
> Sunny and cool in San Antonio,
> Jason
>
>
> On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Eric Siegel wrote:
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>> Thanks for pointing out the work of Paul De Marinis, that is  
>> beautiful!
>>
>> Eric Siegel
>> Executive VP
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>> On Jan 17, 2006, at 3:03 PM, jason jay stevens wrote:
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>>> I took part in an exhibition in Germany back in 1999 that  
>>> included a fantastic giant pyrophone built by Bastiaan Maris,  
>>> consisting of 12 pipes, twelve to twenty feet tall, each.  The  
>>> controller was a simple stack o' cams, each switched to one of  
>>> the pipes.  Soniclally, the experience reminded me of sitting at  
>>> the edge of a pond back home in Michigan, at sundown, listening  
>>> to the frogs.
>>>
>>> While on the subject--or, rather, while gradually getting  
>>> tangential to the subject--check out the work of Paul De Marinis,  
>>> a sound artist at Stanford.  I've not seen "Firebirds,"  
>>> personally, but it sounds out-of-this-world:  controlled  
>>> electrical fields modulate gas flames housed in birdcages,  
>>> producing the sound of famous twentieth century political  
>>> speeches!  Too much!
>>> http://www.well.com/~demarini/exhibitions.htm
>>>
>>> jason jay stevens
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>>> On Jan 17, 2006, at 12:28 PM, Ian Russell wrote:
>>>
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>>>> No harm in attempting a simpler solution, before getting into  
>>>> the complexity of Schlieren optics. Set up a burning candle just  
>>>> below the top of the organ pipe, illuminate it using one of  
>>>> those low-voltage desk lamps with a tiny halogen bulb, and cast  
>>>> the shadow of the hot air above the flame onto a large white  
>>>> card. The further from the flame you put the lamp, the sharper  
>>>> (and dimmer!) the shadow.
>>>>
>>>> If that prototype works, it could save a lot of hassle. If the  
>>>> sounding organ pipe shows no effect on the swirling hot-air- 
>>>> shadow, then the much clearer Schlieren pattern probably  
>>>> wouldn't show the effect you need either!
>>>>
>>>> Pieces of dangling tissue paper must be the easiest possible  
>>>> solution. But wondering if low notes would cause the candle  
>>>> flame itself to move gives me another idea. Why not experiment  
>>>> with gas flames mounted close ABOVE the open ends of SEVERAL  
>>>> organ pipes? It's just possible that the flames might be made to  
>>>> dance with the music, which would be utterly awesome...
>>>>
>>>> You could easily prototype this with an ordinary gas blowtorch  
>>>> set to a gentle, luminous flame, held above a sounding organ pipe.
>>>>
>>>> Hey! I just typed 'flame organ' into Google and discovered that  
>>>> a flame organ or Pyrophone was invented by Frederic Kastner in  
>>>> the 1800's. There's a whole shedload of stuff about these  
>>>> things. The clever ones actually controlled internal flames to  
>>>> generate the sound, while less subtle versions apparently shot  
>>>> coloured flames out of the top. How cool is that? (Rats! Anyway,  
>>>> it's quicker to post a message to ASTC-L than it is to file a  
>>>> Patent...)
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Awaken curiosity and they feed their own minds for a lifetime.
>>>> *
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