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To: E. Charters who wrote (1852)	11/23/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) of 2617

JC's idea is to actually print music on people's skin to be read by fingertips. This gives whole new meaning to "the medium is the massage". Who cares about fidelity when you are having fun? "I got this woman back to the motel room, took off her clothes and discovered she was WARPED!" As far as crossover networks and the like, I figure the perfect speaker is air. I've got this pair of speakers from the '50s or '60s. I think they might be prototypes. They have "AA" on the front in little generic stick on letters. Anyway, the're about 2" thick. The whole face is entirely wood (about 1/16th"). There's a magnet with leads that span the back of the wood. There's a tweeter up in one corner. The back is made of bamboo or loose woven reed (kinda like bamboo rollup blinds). The sound is quite remarkable. The bass moves off of the entire front rectangular surface as well as reflecting from the back. Ever hear of anything like this? Why not make a surface the shape of the sound wave we wish to reproduce and blow air across it? Fan noise might be a bother, but I am sure it can be worked out. That would be an unmitigated calliope. Or we could try water. Just fill up the earphones with water. It would damp out all unwanted vibration and carry sound much further. I don't know about induction though. It might be a problem. I went to college once (briefly). The instructor taught Music History. He had a friend named Bruno Hoffman whom he invited to the lecture hall that day to demonstrate his talent on an obscure instrument called the Glass Harp. Basically it was crystal wine glasses played with the finger tips. Instead of being filled with water they were custom blown (to pitch) bu obsessive Austrians. The size of the instrument was abut 4+' wide, and 2' deep. There were 40 glasses (tones) or so. The sound - the SOUND was angelic. The guy was like 80 years old and played the instrument with all fingers at once, making huge polyphonic spans of chords and chirpy arpeggios constantly moving and all the while keeping his fingers wet with soapy water. I'll never forget that. Later I found that he had recorded several albums on the Vox classical label. One was Mozart, I remember. Quite fascinating and aurally riveting. Hey! There you go, E. "Aural rivets"! I am surprised you never heard of Nykwist. He was the fifth Beatle. That's like the ninth guy's name I've heard attributed to being "the fifth beatle". I havee often thought that if one froze sound in some medium then unfroze it for playback you would have the perfect medium. Cool jazz through warm tubes. We observe that during spring in the north w A possible pure data storage could be achieved if recorded sound were played live into a long tube hung between celestial bodies about 3 days away by light. This is closer to my quantum music thing. I'll have to detail it for you. "3" is key (but not the key of 'three'). Ever hear of Anthony Braxton? -JCJ

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