human mental speed of indifference, hesitation, indecision may be defined by the Meanspeed Constant=√3/5″ (the square root of three fifths of one second)
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
The Cavalry Baptist Church on E Street in Asbury Park, Daniel Powter’s acoustic BAD DAY, meanspeed=67.7 bpm, Mission Springsteen accomplished
Back from: Mission Springsteen. As you know, in matters such as that with one as that of the “Boss.”Long story short: thank you to all the people of Asbury Park, Bradley Beach and Belmar New Jersey who were fantastically fantastic hosts for Mission Springsteen—a secret mission about which I hope to be able to speak in an open manner. For now, suffice to say: Bruce is “totally fine with” my site and the use of his songs on the site—as long as I do not start publishing lyric and chord sheets.While waiting around to meet Bruce and his most pleasant and friendly entourage (more like good friends than a “posse”), I had time to prepare these charts which feature two things: the two 3-D graphs and the linear graph show Daniel Powter performing Bad Day, an iTunes download, alone with a piano accompaniment only. As you can see from the chart on the top which compares the two performances: one is a sequencer in repetitive time, the other in Powter’s head—pure live time.Is one better than the other? No. Is one way more “pure” than the other—hey, isn’t a metronome cheating, didn’t Powter obviously cheat in the “rock” version??? NO! Playing with a sequencer is as tricky and difficult and musically demanding as playing live, and those musicians who can play either way—Metheny, Mays, Collins, Gabriel, Bowie, The Stones, Dave Matthews band, Clapton, Townsend, John, Sting, Springsteen—these people make it. There used to be a commercial in the 1970s pitching Memorex Brand cassette recording tape. The slogan, after a recording of an opera singer was so well duplicated on the cassette that the reproduction of the high notes shatters a wine glass: “Is it live, or it Memorex?”As per the metronome, the best bands and musicians, a few mentioned above, have musicians who have all trained themselves to have fun playing on a sequenced track or have fun just playing live—and what happens is is that often the sequencer frees up the playing, and such recording sounds more Live tan a real live recording than is trying to Stay on Beat.These are the mean frequencies for the acoustic version of Bad Day, calibrated as my team’s undisclosed vehicle passed the Cavalry Baptist Churchon E Street in Asbury Park. The song : My City Of Ruins was blasting in my head. Asbury needs a Bruce Museum on E Street—an amazing place—bring your bathing suit, etc—2 blocks from the sea. Please notice, as Sting and a list that could go from Paul Simon to Bob Marley, the disproportionate number of artists who live almost next to an ocean? Is it the salt in the water that increases creativity? I think it is a possibility. Anyway, the breakdown of Bad Day, live, acoustically:Meanspeed=67.7 beats per minute mean-emotion=ceremony average beat=0.886 seconds mean slow phase=1.128 cycles per second
corresponding pitch=288.85 Hertz, 71.5 cents above D4=293.665 Hz and 28.5 cents below D#4/Eb4=311.127.Back from the beautiful New Jersey shore, reviving Atlantic Ocean, kind people—Mission Springsteen accomplished,Ian SchneiderNew York City27 July 2006
I have page called www.meanspeed.com where, online, for no money nor request of any of YOUR information, such as Username/Password/favorite Teacher time-wasters. The way in which *IT MATTERS* (+) can be found thereon, and depending on your level of intelligence, you can go to town right away.
Envious people, as, [redacted] of Staten Island or [redacted], from the always arrogant yet gauche Saratoga Springs, New York, not fed every bit of information about the way to look at time on a proper, precise, useable way, and what they do, as your less than biting attempt at sarcasm in your [comment] snide backwards transparently envious remark does is attack the applicability of the meanspeed conjecture itself. Go to a Richard Feynman chart and get back to me on particle physics and its nails on a chalkboard relation to the theory of relativity (*badly* translated, as teh theor is based on the absolute speed of light, not the “relative” light - you knew that though) which you undoubtedly are familiar with and are able to swank around with. Not so easy. You actually like, have to read the physics. You feeling me here?
Did you read it? Are you too obtuse to understand it? If you are, keep commenting, I will answer away.
In this case, sir or mam or whatever, the chart illustrates the asymptotic nature of the line of advance which is contiguously calibrated and does something HUGE - it shows that the song is bound by the emotional category in which it sits: what I used to simply call “natural” I expanded upon the advice of [redacted]. That person is the main worker in a company called [redacted], and their words of - “Let them insult you personally - it’s a compliment” soothe me when I read lazy writing as your sentence. Lazy! Why? Because I only indicate on Flickr 3 places where I post places to explain with a simplicity that makes the conjecture understandable, comprehensible, whatever synonym you like, at a glance. You were too lazy to do that. If you were not too lazy, and actually went to, for example, www.meanspeed.com, www.meanspeedmusic.com or www.meanspeed.blog.com, and you “got it,” a decent human being would have come back here and said, “I read X and it did makes sense.” No. You are a GIMME person. But there ya go - I just gave you three sites out of which to make sense of the patterns. Couldn’t you have simply Googled it? Jesus Christ, help me.
Understand, I could have deleted your comment. It reads as an cheap, easy, cowardly ad hominem swipe, poorly disguised as a bratty “I’m smarter than you, this is worthless” slap. Ouch.
1) the method which which the tempo chart was synthesized is published all over the internet in general, and if you are serious about what you comment on, and you seriously doubt me - Heck, if you just want to make your own measurements of tempo, come back and prove me wrong, PLEASE SO DO! The method is so simple that my 7-year old niece can handle it;
2) when knowledge is power, as it is, and noise pollution is never going away, knowledge of and familiarity with what speed is telling you about the REAL emotional content behind a song, such knowledge as above is priceless. You can control your mental speed, control your mood, without my harsh legalistic tone of imparting information to you, from learning about music you already own.
To be specific about Lennon’s I’M ONLY SLEEPING, he is in a space of comfort, he is natural, clear, unperturbed. Songs at this tempo have such a high predictability of this emotive output that when you look at a basic list of such songs, www.meanspeed.com/graphs–>BPM lists that you will say, “Gee this is obvious. How come no one noticed this before.” Anyway, John says:
“PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK THAT I AM LAZY
I DON’T MIND
I THINK THERE CRAZY
GOING EVERYWHERE AT SUCH A SPEED
‘TIL THEY FIND
THERE’S NO NEED
PLEASE DON’T WAKE ME
NO DON’T SHAKE ME
LEAVE ME AS I AM
I’M ONLY SLEEPING”
It’s that simple - the graph simply means - John was in a comfortable, natural, clear mood.
You’d be amazed (well, maybe not you but anyone who is looking here with sincerity) at the power you will achieve. Once you know, for example, the tempo of “WE WILL ROCK YOU” and what it implies, the reason that it has been stomped at events for over 25 years, you may just get “what it means.” I say this as respectfully as I can, as your lazy question would have been simply deleted by anyone who did no t have confidence that their (in this case my) conjecture is a truth.
That you for checking it out - if your question is real, I hope to hear an update.
/River C.C. Newman/
a/k/a Ian Andrew Schneider, Esq., founder of the Donovan McNabb Memorial Bird and Wildlife Sanctuary in Princeton [insert insult] New Jersey, music clinician, music teacher, drummer, piano accompanist, composer in residence for the Episcopal Church of The Heavenly Rest - www.heavenlyrest.org, 1997-2004.
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Meanspeed Music Education Is Honored To Be Featured in MUSIC FOR PICTURE
Music for Picture never let is know that they were going to give us a feature. So said, anytime someone really *gets* what we are all about makes all the work we put into the meanspeed conjecture worth it.
They make the point for us that we cannot make on our own, something we encourage everyone who reads our material on meanspeed.com and Wordpress’ meanspeedmusic.com: that tempo analysis sounds dry. in reality, it is the wettest thing going. As we have preached and tried to prove and begged for feedback as that on Music For Picture, when you learn yoru favorite speeds, understand the territoroes of speed, you will be able to control your mind in a new way. This is not for everyone, howeverm for lovers of contemporary music, it is the one of the best psychological tries one can make. Chemicals? No. Inflated psychiatry bills (a redindant concept)? Nope. Just an investement of your time in learning this meanspeed conjecture will be giving many a new power of mind that has the abiliy to soothe and enthuse. The most you will be shelling out for money is an occassional 99¢ download.
Be aware, if you think that the conjecture is wrong, or you follow the logic and the sound and do not believe hat the spectrum of speed territories is wrong, let us know at meanspeed@gmail.com.
This was the feature: http://www.musicforpicture.com/web/chatter.php
The Trons are coming! Engineer Greg Locke literally put the band together and they’re becoming a sensation on youtube and myspace. The name is derived from the nickname given to the locals of Hamilton, New Zealand. Greg’s day job is building robotic blueberry sorters for the local farmers. Read about their “influences “.
Is it Upbeat? June 16, 2008
Meanspeed.com is a blog about music and their tempos. Sounds a little dry? It features beautiful graphs of 1000 songs and what appears to be an analysis of each songs data.
Forecast for Brooklyn June 9, 2008
2008’s answer to the Sparks , Project Jenny Project Jan have just released their new video about the weather in Brooklyn. The catchy tune is sure to be a hit. Look for cameos from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. “It’s Always Sunny in Brooklyn “
Adem Covers Album June 4, 2008
Adem’s bowed-glockenspiel version of Bjork’s “Unravel” is a highlight of his new covers album.
Submarines Launch May 29, 2008
More MFP alums The Submarines have released their album Honeysuckle Weeks on Netwerk. You may have heard Jack & Blake’s “Brighter Discontent” during the finale of “Nip Tuck ” where the characters of the series lip synced the song. Be sure to see The Submarines on tour this Spring.
Mates of State New Album May 22, 2008
MFP alums Mates of State have released their album re-arrange us on Barsuk Records. We were lucky to catch a great performance by the duo last night, and recommend keeping an eye out for them on tour. Congrats to a favorite power couple.
In the Studio May 12, 2008
Jennifer O’Connor was in the studio this week recording vocals for a special project with Peter. She brought a copy of here new Matador release “Here With Me”. Look for it’s public release in the late Summer. We’re all very excited for JOC!
The Berliner Philarmoiker has taken a cue from ‘Guitar Hero’ and are offering people the chance to compete online composer Camille Saint-Saens. Use your mouse and to control the bow. It’s pretty tricky and the sound tends more toward the avanr garde.
Battle of the Bands April 14, 2008
Using the ‘wonders’ of web 2.0, Songkick.com has created a virtual stockmarket comprised of band notoriety. Using data based on MySpace page views, Amazon rank, Songkick ranks as well as other public music feed information, values are ‘calculated’ on that groups value at different times. Here is a quick sampling I did. The power of four , change the channel and alphabet rock .
Andrew Bird at nyt.com April 9, 2008
Read Andrew’s post in The Times’ ‘Measure for Measure’ blog. Fun recording stories and musings. A gentleman, a scholar, and an MFP alum.
Klaus Dinger 1946-2008 April 3, 2008
His landmark drumming style, a propulsive almost surf-like repetitious groove defined the term ‘motorik’ and has had a profound influence on a huge range of artists such as Primal Scream, Stereolab, Wilco, David Bowie, The Boredoms and Four Tet. The fact that he was an original member of Kraftwerk, Neu and La Dusseldorf demonstrates his profound contribution to “modern rock” as it’s known today.
SXSW 6 Words or Less March 19, 2008
Writer Paul Ford, author of Gary Benchley, Rock Sar, has listened to the mp3’s from each of the 763 bands appearing at Austin’s SXSW music festival this year. He’s encapsulated his thoughts about each recording in to a six word review. “Fills a Billy-Joel shaped chasm.”, “Looks like Stella, tastes like Pabst.”
Murdering the Classics March 5, 2008
Since 1996 Yo La Tengo has been performing requests on the air at WFMU as for their fundraiser. “Murdering the Classics” is becoming a classic in itself with past shows available for download. The unwritten rule is the weirder the song choice the more you should donate. Visit this year’s broadcast
and experience the fun!
Bent Festival February 27, 2008
Start weeding through those old boxes in the basement; the Bent Festival may be heading your way. Circuit-bending at its finest comes to LA, Minneapolis, and New York this spring, turning toys and discarded electronics into, well, music.
Black List Sundance Premiere January 16, 2008
Associates (and family) Chris McKee and Michael Sloane share in the premiere of The Black List at Sundance this week. They co-produced the film, conceived by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (l) and Elvis Mitchell (r).
Voodoo Funk December 12, 2007
His name is Frank and he travels around Africa, buys tapes and singles, rips them, and posts them. There are actually several blogs like this, but he sometimes combines several into a mix, so you can listen for a while instead of going back to a new posting of his every six minutes for two more songs. Enjoy this weeks posting ‘Groovy Christmas’ on Voodoo Funk.
Live from New York December 6, 2007
NYC’s Other Music has had some great in-store performances over the years, and now they’ve begun to produce short segments to show them off. “Boooring,” you say? Well, these smartly produced clips are better than that. Check out St. Vincent in Volume 1 .
All Night Along November 19, 2007
I came across this amazing movie the other night. It’s a 1962 version of ‘Othello’ set in England using jazz musicans instead of royalty. Charlie Mingus, Dave Brubeck (and many other American musicans) are all “members of the court” . They’re having a big jam session in the background as bandleader “Johnny Cousin” plants the seeds of jealousy in the mind of a more prominent bandleader “Rex” about the fidelity of his retired singer wife “Delia Lane”. If you like Shakespeare and jazz this is a must see. Also performing at the “session” were Keith Christie, Bert Courtley, John Dankworth, Ray Dempsey, Allen Gantley, Paul Harris, Aurelius Rex, Tubby Hayes, Geoffrey Holder, Patrick McGoohan, Johnnie Cousin, Keith Michell, Barry Morgan, Kenny Napper and Colin Purbrook. -Peter
Graboff in the House November 8, 2007
We lucked out in having multi-instrumentalist extraordinaire Jon Graboff in the studio this week during a short break from touring the world with Ryan Adams and The Cardinals. Long live the pedal steel and all those who can tame the beast.
Thao Kills Rock Stars November 6, 2007
Thao Nguyen, who impressed us with her 2006 debut Like The Linen, has signed with Kill Rock Stars. She recorded We Brave Beestings And All, which will be released early next year, with producer Tucker Martine (Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens, Laura Veirs, Mudhoney).
Amazon MP3 Launches September 26, 2007
Without much fanfare, Amazon launched its DRM-free mp3 store yesterday, offering most downloads at a discount to iTunes, and some albums and songs at true “sale” prices. But you’ll still have to pay the full 89 cents each for tracks by Neil Norman and his Cosmic Orchestra.
That Giant Sucking Sound September 12, 2007
The Wall Street Journal today asks the painful question, “Are you listening to music more but enjoying it less?” Many people have had a conversation about declining audio quality in an mp3 era, but myspace’s ubiquity has taken the suckiness to another level. The article offers audio samples for comparison.
Os Mutantes for Shell September 5, 2007
Os Mutantes were formed in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1966 by brothers Arnaldo Baptista (bass, keyboards and vocals) and Sérgio Dias (guitars and vocals) and lead singer Rita Lee. They released two albums heavily influenced by the Brazilian Tropicália movement, which blended Psychedelic Rock with other forms of art. Beck has sited them as a large influnece & David Byrne is a big fan. Take a look at some of their strange ads for Shell Oil.
No Skateboarding August 29, 2007
Artist Bill Shannon dances and skateboards - on crutches no less - around downtown Brooklyn in Director Joey Garfield’s continuous shot video for RJD2’s “Work it Out.” (No, it’s not the song from HSM2.)
Bishop Allen`s EP a Month August 20, 2007
When Justin & Christian mentioned they wanted to record an EP a month for their fans I thought this would be a fine test for “the hardest working band” in Brooklyn. We did some overdubs at the MFP and helped with their remote setup.
The EPS compilation “Broken String” has recently been released. Be sure to check them out when they come to your town. They undoubtedly plan to at some point. -Peter
Ingmar`s Ads! August 6, 2007
In 1951 Ingmar Bergman signed a contract with the Sunlight Corporation to make nine commercials for Bris soap . Each commercial had to contain one of two slogans: “Perspiration alone does not smell; it is the skin bacteria that cause the smell when they come in contact with perspiration” or “Bris kills the bacteria—no bacteria—no smell.” Bergman had fun making the commercials, though he had some difficulty fitting the Bris text into the films.
Balkan Mixtapes! July 26, 2007
Typsy Gypsy from Belgium mixed a double sided mixtape full of Balkan, Gypsy, Klezmer and everything over 150 bpm! Together with Sam Rabam Typsy Gypsy forms the dj collective Balkan Hot Stepsoundsystem.
As they like to say “We play everything that makes you go ‘HOPA’ !!!”
We Love the Brazilian Girls! July 24, 2007
What better way to spend a sunny Sunday afternooon than dancing away to the sounds of some of Music For Picture’s favorite collaborators?
That’s what I did this weekend, heading to Central Park Summerstage to hear an awesome show by our friends the Brazilian Girls! Rounding out the bill was another MFP collaborator, Kenny Wollesen, with his 89 person marching band Himalaya’s, and a little piece of home for me in the form of Australia`s Cat Empire. -Karlie
PJPJ Tour with Fujiya + Miyagi July 19, 2007
Project Jenny Project Jan, the duo of Jeremy Haines and MFP’s own Sammy Rubin, have returned from a short tour with Fujiya & Miyagi, during which they brought their alternatingly quirky and bombastic sound to new fans in the Northeast. “An incredible experience,” said Haines. Watch this space for more on these rising stars.
Spinal Tap Bass Army July 9, 2007
“the loudest and most punctual band on Earth, this is Spinal Tap!” .-manager Marty DiBurghi
The veteran rockers then ploughed through three of their ‘hits’. However the real centrepiece of the performance came before the closing ‘Big Bottom’ , before which ‘David St Hubbins’ introduced “every bass player in the known universe…”.
Joining the band were Foo Fighters’ Nate Mendell, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Bloc Party’s Gordon Moakes and Madonna’s bass player and producer Stuart Price. However, Metallica frontman James Hetfield and the entire Beastie Boys also made it onto the stage to join in the fun.
Manu Chao at Prospect Park June 29, 2007
MFP had a chance to relax and enjoy the music when we attended the Manu Chao concert in Prospect Park. The event was part of the summer-long Celebrate Brooklyn festival, which offers free concerts a few nights a week. Some of our collaborators (such as Catherine Russell and Steven Bernstein) can be seen performing there this summer. -Sammy
Our old friend Eugene Mirman has a series of “shows” on www.superdeluxe.com about talkshows of the future and lonely djs writing in their diarys. As Peter does for all of his old friends, he wrote the theme songs for both of the series.
Summer Rock! June 20, 2007
Between Summerstage, River to River , Celebrate Brooklyn, and other NYC festivals, the summer music season is in full swing. The first of many MFP alums to rock the city stages this summer are Martha Wainwright and Jim Campilongo, sharing a bill sponsored by The Living Room for River to River June 26th.
Sharon Jones New Single June 11, 2007“I’m Not Gonna Cry” from Sharon Jones and the Dep-Kings has just been released and it’s mighty good. Daptone Records is fast becoming the Stax of Brooklyn.
Passing Strange May 21, 2007
“Does the world really need another ‘musical for people who hate musicals,’” you ask? In this case, yes. NYC is lucky to have Stew’s play / concert / monologue Passing Strange at the Public Theater through June 3rd. “It dares in its playful way to honor those big questions that have set adolescent souls yearning for centuries,” Charles Isherwood writes in the New York Times. “How to discover and be true to your convictions, how to live a meaningful life, and still pay the bills, how to find the understanding you need with out throwing away the love you’re offered.” And the band seriously rocks. - Ben
Sex Mob + Catherine Russell May 17, 2007
Sex Mob and Catherine Russell were in the studio this week in what turned out to be an inspired and joyous collaboration (and we can only hope, the first of many for them). The project is double-secret-triple-hush so that’s all we can say right now, but we’re looking forward to sharing the results soon!
CNN meets MTV? May 14, 2007
Boston rocker and leader of the group ‘The Gentlemen”, Jake Brennan is singing op-ed commentaries about current events. The feature ‘Pop-Ed’ can be found on Boston.com . What’s next? A comedy show about news events? - Peter
Tango in Shoot Top Ten April 27, 2007
Our track for Nabisco “Tango,” composed by Jared Hunter and featuring accordion by Rob Burger (Rufus Wainwright, Tin Hat Trio) and violin by Leonardo Suarez-Paz (Cuartetango, Avantango), enters Shoot Magazine’s top ten music tracks for Spring 2007.
Useful Lunacy March 30, 2007
Our pal Tim Brunelle, Carmichael Lynch CD of Interactive, begins his Useful Lunacy blog on all things creative. Our very own New Music Review makes it to his March 29 post, “Geek Squad Remote.”
Run Granny Run March 14, 2007
Filmmaker Marlo Poras and composer Ian Kane were in the studio in February to record score for Run Granny Run, winner of the 2007 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award for Feature Documentaries. The film follows 94-year-old Doris ‘Granny D’ Haddock in her grassroots New Hampshire campaign for U.S. Senate. Ms. Poras’ first film, Mai’s America, won the Audience Award for Feature Documentaries at SXSW in 2002.
New truth Spot January 30, 2007
Hear Music for Picture’s track for truth’s recent infection “Sodium Hydroxide.” And send some hairy mail while you’re at it.
Balloonamentary Premiere January 20, 2007
In Music for Picture Alumni News, our former intern Sara Taksler (During Sara’s first week here, Sara was offered a job at The Daily Show, at which time she chose to pursue her real passion: comedy. True Story. But once a friend of MFP, always a friend of MFP.) has co-written, produced, and directed “Twisted: A Balloonamentary,” which will premiere at the 2007 SXSW Film Festival this March. Watch the trailer here.
By Popular Demand January 15, 2007
For the many good people who asked, here it is: Jagielky’s of Ventnor. And for those who are making the pilgrimage: Krispy Fluff.
“Anything For You,” written and performed by Gloria Estefan, meanemotion=grace, meanspeed=72.0
These are speed graphs of the song Anything For You, written and performed by Gloria Estefan. The song sits in the middle of the meanemotion of grace—and in this song, in my opinion, you will hear a woman at peace with herself, in a deeply committed relationship, with a kindness that comes only out of deep self-confidence.
meanspeed=72.0 beats per minute meanemotion=graceful meanspace=0.833 seconds per beat meanphase=1.20 cycles per second meanpitch=307.20 Hertz,77.5 cents above D4=293.665 Hertz and 22.5 cents below D#4/Eb4=311.127 Hertz.
Ian Schneider
September 26, 2008
NYC
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The Psychology of the Speed and Momentum Crushing the Oppponent, The Psychology of the Speed of Foreboding Upon Feeling The Crush
The three songs represented on the charts below are showing you emotions as instant sheet music not for “dummies’” but rather for anyone who is inquisitive and determined to explore the effect of precise tempo insofar that speed territoriality itself dictates the more than the words themselves. To this rule there are exceptions of course, and this is called speed irony or tempo irony. For example, below, see how sad President William Jefferson Clinton looks inside a song that is played at the speed of victory: his stoic contemplation belies any type of result in Iowa last night. Similarly, see how the image of Mrs. Clinton inside a song at the speed of foreboding as it appears as though she is victorious not only does not ring true but almost bizarre.
and finally to Barbara Marx, to whom he was married at his death….Frank Sinatra Witchcraft classic video videoclips videomusic clip music musica song retro1965) Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 — May 14, 1998) was an Italian American jazz-oriented popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor.
Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the “bobby soxers”. His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, but it was reborn in 1954 after he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He signed with Capitol Records and released several critically lauded albums (such as In the Wee Small Hours, Songs For Swingin’ Lovers, Come Fly With Me, Only the Lonely and Nice ‘n’ Easy). Sinatra left Capitol to found his own record label, Reprise Records (finding success with albums such as Ring-A-Ding-Ding, Sinatra at the Sands and Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim), toured internationally, and fraternized with the Rat Pack and President John F. Kennedy in the early 1960s. Sinatra turned fifty in 1965, recorded the retrospective September of My Years, and scored hits with “Strangers in the Night” and “My Way”. Sinatra attempted to weather the changing tastes in popular music, but with dwindling album sales and after appearing in several poorly received films, he retired in 1971. Coming out of retirement in 1973, he recorded several albums, scoring a hit with “(Theme From) New York, New York”, and toured both within the United States and internationally until a few years before his death in 1998.
Sinatra had three children; Nancy, Frank Jr. and Tina by his first wife Nancy Barbato. He was married three more times, to the actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow and finally to Barbara Marx, to whom he was married at his death.(more)(less)
By contrast, as many of the Last shall be First, Senator Obama’s appearance on the chart with Mary J. Blige in a song performed as a duo with Paul Hewson, also known as Sir Bono, David Evans, Larry Mullen Junior and Adam Clayton of Ireland looks enthusiastic.
The confidence in predicting of the deterministic element of tempo varies from speed to speed. I might be 44% likely to predict that a song that is really (not what Mixmeister gives you, with all due respect. Among the lack of integrity of people that will give you *real* speeds, let us go past the smarmy locals and go straight to the disingenuous source: Steven Jobs. A friend who is well connected, well funded, and for you women, well endowed - with a large family, of course - never seen his johnson, sorry - anyway, he said, “Steve Jobs is an [very mean tone taken *asshole*." I was floored. Not had I always thought Jobs the misunderstood benevolent bot genius, I thought he might be cool. Hell no. Any of you with "outdated" macs (those over 3 months old) who update to his newest OSX update - if you lose all your data? Shit! We warned ya! And the mac is a toy don't ya know. Microsoft, IBM, Google do all the work, Apple repackages it in a fancy yet smarmy way, like a nasty version of Sony products. As if: Sony parts did not have integration. Jobs came up with an iTunes system that is a scandal: you may only download once, despite their owning a copy of a song you *already bought but was lost on your hard drive because the new Tiger system blew up your "old" data, like you iTunes Library. The most ethical company I know is Audible.com, a company that sells books on recording by excellent readers at a fair price with enormous selections of everything. I bought Charlie Wilson's War, a 24 hour book in 2004, and I had erased it from my hard-drive for room, and wanted to download it before checking out the movie. Easily done: I go to the site--->My Library---->Download. Voila. You own it for life - or at least for the life of the company. And the only book club that was acceptable to Apple was Audible, and that price *should* have been steep in Audible's favor as they are every bit as ethical as iTunes is not. Of course, conspiracy theorists like myself if I've been outside too long would say that they are really the sane company, and in the future, to maintain revenue, with people revolting in masses against iTunes, Apple will bend to the same rule: If you ACCOUNT buys an album or a song, as long as you can prove that you have held the account from which you bought the music, you can download. Those rules of greed are obscene - as virtually all that is paid for mainly out of a morality play, as p2p is so easy, gets *punished* while Dr. Limewire has made $5,000 in DVD sales of the last concert ever by The Beatles.
Take that out a step way further. On his iTunes video 80 GB iPod, which is always breaking down - look out of it is not because then it's just going to die *completely* one day and the Apple Store twenty-something will say, "I'm sorry, that's what happens." Anyway, the iPod has an absolutely fantastic 200 lap stop watch on it that records two-hundred consecutive laps - a thousand calibrations on that iPod, with great software function and ease of use with music (I measure songs on the train - I was terribly excited about this watch. it even went out to the THIRD decimal place in seconds: while Nike, Seiko, Timex, and , well, everyone else stop at hundredths of seconds, the iPod does thousandths! One problem, two laughable results. The problem is that the lap button is in the middle of the iPod and goes down a distance of [X] number of diopters and hits “lap” - yet that button is raised and horribly inconsistent, so the problem is:
1) The time measurements are not even reliable to the 1ooths. I have many $10 watches that are far superior in a straight one lap digital count - the watch function does not work properly–nor can it, lest it is a touch screen version (like I am not going to buy it!); and
2) The idea of being unreliable out to the *thousandth* of a second is as absurd as if: you were 2-10 minutes to an 8 o’clock curtain, and upon being asked the time a man said: “It is seven hours, 56 minutes 44.78 seconds, or 3 minutes 56.22 seconds until 8!” where that man’s watch was good to go as far as the time being within 30 seconds of 7:57, but the “.78 seconds” is vanity and silliness and misleading - and Jobs sells this. Shameful. A Seiko stop watch is to an iTunes stopwatch what Air Force One is to that piece of crap John Denver flew into that mountain or even the Piper that Kennedy killed 2 sisters and himself, many say because he was a lousy pilot, his instrument rating not assured. And we all buy Steve Jobs because Bill Gates is supposed to be so “evil.” Wrong. Just like Google. Google is no more evil than MySpace or Facebook are “good.”
Your feedback has been encouraged to the maximum since the day we came online in August, 2004. Thank you for checking us out. The scale, which we call the Universal Tempo Scale created with mean speed music theory is:
Speed categories are territorial and predictable, yet only in this small range, essentially .5-2 Hertz, or 30 beats per minute (“bpm“) to 120. Speed ironies are a natural emergence and make for some of the most interesting music - they occur in every elevator we enter, every time we are put on hold on the telephone, every Starbucks song is pre-programmed to try to program you. Fight back - learn the real shit, on these pages, no money, no names, really: I don’t wanna even know ya- I just want to say - if you can master this theory, it is like carrying an invisible private limousine in your head. Then again, you can let the Industry shove Daughtry down your throat - your choice, sisters and brothers.
Universal Standard tempo”
54-58-Melodrama
59-62-Sincerity
63-69-Ceremony
70-76-Grace
77-78-Bittersweetness
79-84-Loneliness
85-89-Renewal
90-97-Enthusiasm
98-105-Natural
106-113-Lust
114-118-Foreboding
119-128-Victory
Archetype songs of enthusiasm, from meanspeed.com:
An old clip of Fleetwood mac performing Don’t Stop on the Tusk tour in Germany. I love this footage, it seems as if Lindsey is aAn old clip of Fleetwood mac performing Don’t Stop on the Tusk tour in Germany. I love this footage, it seems as if Lindsey is a little hopped up, but his vocals are great. This is amazing, performing in daylight with a true audience that looks like they are having lots of fun.
Thanks for gldstwmn at ledge.fleetwoodmac.net.
Please if anyone has the rest of this concert PLEASE post or let me know, I will pay money for it.
PS. sorry its a little garbeled at points. I am not too sure why this is
Stop‘ with help from the University of Southern California’s Trojans Marching Band For More Information contact: Info@FastFocus.TV…music fleetwood mac don stopA live performance of Fleetwood Mac’s classic hit, ‘Don’t Stop’ with help from the University of Southern California’s Trojans Marching Band
Apple’s chosen Single Of The Week: Places In The Sun by Test Your Reflex, meanspeed=120.0 beats per minute
As of this writing, this song of the week on iTunes has yet to be reviewed. You can download it free all week on http://www.itunes.com, this week only, as it is the Apple chosen “Single Of The Week.”
“Places of the Sun”
artist=Test Your Reflex
composer=Ryan Levine
genre=alternative
released=March 6, 2007
We measured the elemental speeds of this song as:
meanemotion=Victory
meanspeed=120.0 beats per minute
Breast Cancer and Fighting Back–iTunes: Sheryl Crow with a “a more relaxed feel, taking the time to let the track unwind” on NOT FADE AWAY
breast cancer cell
Sheryl Crow, the American rock legend-in-the-making, released a recording of “Not Fade Away” exclusively for iTunes in conjunction with Revlon’s Colorist Charity in support for research for the complete defeat of breast cancer and cancer in general.
Here’s what iTunes tells us:
“Sheryl Crow’s music has always embraced the rock more than the pop. Her songs give off an air of the sunburnt American Dream, rocking down the freeway, top down, radio up. Here, she takes on Buddy Holly’s classic “Not Fade Away” with a more relaxed feel, taking the time to let the track unwind. This song is an iTunes exclusive, with net preceeds to benefit the fight against breast cancer.”
The speeds were measured as:
meanspeed=92.1 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm
meanspace=0.652 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.53 beats per second
meanpitch=392.85 hertz, 4 cents higher than G4=391.995 hertz, 96 cents lower than G#4/Ab4=415.305 hertz.
Sarah McLachlan, Fumbling Towards Ecstasy–elementary speeds viewed though meanspeed music theory
These are the elementary speeds for 11 songs on the album Fumbling Towards Ecstasy, the debut album by Canadian singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist Sarah McLachlan:
Track #1
song title=“Posession”
meanspeed=97.5 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural
meanspace=0.615 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.63 beats per second
meanpitch=416.05 hertz, 3 cents higher than G#4/Ab4=415.305 hertz, 97 cents lower than A4=440.000 hertz.
Track #2
song title=“Wait”
meanspeed=99.1 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural
meanspace=0.606 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.65 beats per second
meanpitch=422.65 hertz, 33 cents higher than G#4/Ab4=415.305 hertz, 70 cents lower than A4=440.000 hertz.
Track #3
song title=“Plenty”
meanspeed=114.7 beats per minute
meanemotion=foreboding
meanspace=0.523 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.91 beats per second
meanpitch=489.51 hertz, 84 cents higher than A#4/Bb4=466.164 hertz, 16 cents lower than B4=493.883 hertz.
Track #4
song title=“Good Enough”
meanspeed=88.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=renewal
meanspace=0.682 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.47 beats per second
meanpitch=375.47 hertz, 25 cents higher than F#4/Gb4=369.994 hertz, 75 cents lower than G4=391.995 hertz.
Track #5
song title=“Mary”
meanspeed=85.0 beats per minute
meanemotion=renewal
meanspace=0.706 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.42 beats per second
meanpitch=362.67 hertz, 64 cents higher than F4=349.228 hertz, 36 cents lower than F#4/Gb4=369.994 hertz.
Track #6
song title=“Elsewhere”
meanspeed=70.5 beats per minute
meanemotion=grace
meanspace=0.851 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.17 beats per second
meanpitch=300.74 hertz, 41 cents higher than D4=293.665 hertz, 59 cents lower than D#4/Eb4=311.127 hertz.
Track #7
song title=“Circle”
meanspeed=92.1 beats per minute
meanemotion=enthusiasm
meanspace=0.652 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.53 beats per second
meanpitch=392.85 hertz, 4 cents higher than G4=391.995 hertz, 96 cents lower than G#4/Ab4=415.305 hertz.
Track #8
song title=“Ice”
meanspeed=99.1 beats per minute
meanspeed=64.1 beats per minute
meanemotion=ceremony
meanspace=0.936 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.07 beats per second
meanpitch=273.36 hertz, 26 cents higher than C4=261.626 hertz, 74 cents lower than C#4/Db4=277.183 hertz.
Track #9
song title=“Hold On”
meanspeed=68.8 beats per minute
meanemotion=ceremony
meanspace=0.872 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.15 beats per second
meanpitch=293.52 hertz, 99 cents higher than C#4/Db4=277.183 hertz, 1 cent lower than D4=293.665 hertz.
Track #10
song title=“Ice Cream”
meanspeed=130.1 beats per minute
meanemotion=mixed fast
meanspace=0.461 seconds per beat
meanphase=2.17 beats per second
meanpitch=554.88 hertz, 2 cents higher than D5=587.330 hertz, 98 cents lower than D#5/Eb5=622.254 hertz.
Track #11
song title=“Fear”
meanspeed=94.2 beats per minute
meanemotion=natural
meanspace=0.637 seconds per beat
meanphase=1.65 beats per second
meanpitch=401.96 hertz, 43 cents higher than G4=391.995 hertz, 57 cents lower than G#4/Ab4=415.305 hertz.
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