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Not the you're thinking about, but one that explains how animals run, fly, and swim.
Through a process that R. Luke Dubois has dubbed "time-lapse phongraphy," you can listen to all of Billboard's number one singles since 1958. Playing a "spectral average" of each piece, lasting one second for each week it charted, the 857 songs create a spacey collage.
It does not have a beat and you can't dance to it, but it's kind of fascinating.
It's amazing.
Oh oh oh, I'm rain
Oh oh oh, it's frightening…
It really is; no kidding. Amazing to wake up and push back the curtains to see beyond the parking lot and beyond the Riviera billboard which begs, "Let Us Entertain You," and beyond Paradise Road to the 24-hour CVS and beyond the Hypnaughty shop (and we still haven't figured out what they sell or provide) and beyond all of the pink and yellow playfulness of the hotels and casinos — beyond all of that phoniness — to great, purple mountains.
I want to climb those mountains.
Oh oh oh, I'm lightningOh oh oh, I'm rain
Oh oh oh, it's frightening…
Call me biased. I really don't care, and, anyway:
You'd be right.
But I think I've already discovered one of my favorite rooms here at the Show.
I stopped by to say hello to John DeVore over at the St. Tropez where he's setting up two rooms at T.H.E. Show. They've still got a lot of work to do, but things are already sounding good.
Between the two rooms, DeVore's got three systems going. The smallest system features my sweethearts, the small gibbon 3s, matched to a Sony Playstation as the CD source.
"Awesome," I tell John.
"Yeah, it sounds…
To be honest, I didn't give it much of a chance. I mean, especially after Jim Thiel's captivating presentation on the new CS3.7, the Philips press conference seemed like so much noise and swirling lights and fake boobs.
Can I say "fake boobs" in a show report?
Anyhoo, Thiel's newest model features a midrange driver which is said to achieve some seriously realistic tonal character. Jim Thiel worked this out not by utilizing any fancy-schmancy materials — beryllium, for instance — but by going old-skool, geometry style.
It's ribbed, for your pleasure.
"Formed…
Basically, the press conference day is crowded and noisy and pointless. Even worse, they play irritating techno music at you for what seems like hours.
If one component is omnipresent this year, it's the iPod. You may find this hard to believe, but there are actually companies making iPod accessories these days—actually, it's hard to find companies that aren't.
I was really taken by the stuff in Sonic Impact's booth, especially the $149 i-Fusion, which hoses speakers, a docking station, class-D amp, headphone storage, and DSP to make the tiny speakers sound pretty decent.
No, this won't replace my office system, bit I sure wish I could have convinced Big Rich Bracke that I needed to take the sample set back to my hotel with me…