Not Brian Eno’s best work but give it some time and it’ll grow on me.
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If this were kaiju, a monster would soon appear in the bay.
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A 9000 foot long flute!
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They should put an end to the bridge’s modality and upgrade to tonality.
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I’ll bet Galileo High STEM and music students are designing keying mechanisms at this very moment. I foresee wind gauges and sliding barriers, and of course the system will be hacked.
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And you know this how?
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Legion (2010) is watchable. Paul Bettany is excellent as usual; the script comports itself with dignity and graphic violence, fusing Christian tropes with dystopian angelic close-quarters combat; and the dark visual style is well-conceived and richly supplemented with interesting FX.
Also, the incomprehensibly versatile* Doug Jones as the Ice Cream Man. Because Ice Cream Man!
* See e.g. Hellboy (2004).
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Same engineer worked on both!
Although I recognize that its constancy and volume may well be a nuisance, this doesn’t sound… “creepy” to me.
It sounds cool.
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Brian Breez-o, amiright?
But yeah, looking forward to the Scientific American article that goes into exacting detail on the phenomena involved. The gaps in the pedestrian walkway railing are effectively a multiplicity of resonant whistles(?)
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Ambient 5: Music for Bridges
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David Lynch knows the sound.
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How is that pronounced (separate T and H, or “th” together?) 'Cause my mind immediately went to “If you can’t Beetham, Joyneham.”
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People are assuming it was a screwup. No, it was actually part of a deliberate ritual to summon Ithaqua the Windwalker.
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I’m not from Manchester myself, but IIRC it’s pronounced Beet-Ham. So yeah, Beetham Joyneham sound right to me.
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“We knew going into the handrail replacement that the Bridge would sing during exceptionally high winds from the west, as we saw yesterday,” said a statement from the Golden Gate Bridge District.
So they intentionally didn’t modify the design to prevent it. Would have been nice if they had mentioned that before they summoned an Old God.
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I have tinnitus. The whole world sounds like this to me.
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You jest, but this is the sort of thing that CAD software could predict and at some point surely will.
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I’m sure it’s already easy enough* to model if you see it coming. But if it weren’t a peculiar result, this wouldn’t be news in the first place.
What if there’s some isolated tribe with endemic oculo-buccal inversion, now facing a wave of shoop-fuelled ethnic oppression? Probably not, but would it make you a monster if you hadn’t checked that in advance?
* tho apparently some sound sources, like weird bells, are still hard to model properly
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