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Topic: Dale Pond
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SVP & Digital Sound Dale Pond 12/18/01 If you ever built a dynasphere and held the pieces before during and after Mental Graduation (for lack of a better phrase) you would wonder too how anything as strange as digital could impart the warmth of human touch and Love to metals. I suppose the proof of digital potential would be to produce an object that gets reviews like Atlin does. http://www.svpvril.com/testimonials.html There is more to sound and vibration than just frequency and amplitude. There are the currents and streams of sympathy, outreach, focalization, extension, velocity, rotation, etc., etc. We've been exploring some of these on the SVPForum but there is a long way to go. I've found over the years the conventional view of what a sound vibration is held to be is lacking in many regards including even its definition and fundamental modes of motion. I can say this with assurance: Keely's work cannot be duplicated using conventional definitions and understandings. A whole new collection of mind images needs to be developed and nurtured. Eventually (how many more years?) most of this could be "stumbled over" but never purposefully discovered as sound and vibration engineers blindly explore realms they are now forbidden to investigate. These new views of what is actually going on within vibrations has taken me years to recreate. Quite a bit of this was already known to Russell but one needs to understand what he is trying to say before you understand what he said. Same for Keely, Cayce, Schauberger and Steiner. A good for instance is Steiner's "Gospel of St. John" which I'm working my way through right now. This book cannot be understood unless one has a pretty good background in Cayce, RC AMORC and other metaphysical materials. With my understanding of Keely I can more or less breeze through Russell and Schauberger. But it took years of preparatory work to be able to do this. Those of you who've read my new book "Atlin - Knowing I AM" know about living metallic resonators. On the one hand a resonator is a simple piece of brass metal exhibiting wonderful vibratory qualities. To duplicate this feat (if it could be done) digitally would require an extremely sophisticated computer system, special DSP chip sets and undeveloped sound makers (speakers or transducer-like devices). I'll settle for the shiny piece of brass...... An ordinary transducer converts electrical pulses into mechanical motion. If we looked hard at a trumpet or horn we could say the horn converts the vibration of lips and flowing air into mechanical vibration. So there is no reason to believe really nice transducers could not be invented if properly approached with enough time, expertise and money. One of the problems with modern science and technology is inflation. This is where politics impacts science and philosophy and is a legitimate sub-subject of SVP. Inflation is the lowering of value of money. When I was a kid we could buy a soda pop for as little as .05 cents. Today that same soda pop costs 10-20 times that depending where you shop. What this means to science is people are pressured to make things cheaper so as to stay within a given price range. There is this constant nagging and flogging to engineer things to be mass produced to keep costs down. Because the money is constantly loosing is value everybody constantly needs more dollars to acquire what they were getting before. There is all this pressure and drive and semi-hysteria lurking just under the surface nagging everyone on. What suffers is our peace of mind, heart and home. It is no longer possible to sit on the front porch and whittle a violin or whistle. You gotta be out there MAKING MONEY to pay the taxes so you can keep the use of your own porch. When money had value (pre inflation days) most everything was hand crafted or produced in limited quantities of very good materials. There was an incentive to put value in the product as either design, crafting or materials. As the money looses value just the opposite occurs where the product must now be made as cheaply as possible. Transducer designs are inheritors to this situation as is everything else we have access to these days. Exploring the sound and vibration instrument makers out there reveals some interesting things. You can buy cheap knock-off brands for a few bucks or if you look around at high-end laboratory or military level instrumentation you can find some very nice equipment but these are reserved to those who can afford such fine equipment which can exceed the price of a fine automobile - per device. On the other hand we can make fine metallic resonators in a machine shop. In fact we can build entire dynaspheres for the cost of just one of these fine DSP instruments being just a single tool. Some lament the cost of a dynasphere being currently so high. Or that making metallic devices is expensive. Yes, making metallic devices is expensive but not near as expensive as its equivalent in a room full of digital equipment which becomes obsolete by the minute. Investments in these digital instruments turns to dust in a few short years (and must be replaced) while Atlin will be around forever - barring its theft and/or destruction by the powers that be..... Let's not get too excited about digital possibilities or over react by throwing out mechanical devices. Much can be done with digital equipment but until we can fly we gotta walk. Besides (for instance) atomic frequencies are already in the metal - why expensively recreate that natural source with something unnatural? We can do things the hard way or the easy way - it is our choice. |
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