Kahn - The Aeolian

- 'the Aeolian' is nature's own music, apparently

- myth of Aeolus and the Aeolian Islands
- should natural sounds be called music?
- Engel -- reasonable to allow calling it music since musicians disagree anyway
- Hanslick -- 'complete break with nature'
- Babbling brook, raging of gale, etc. = 'nothing but noise' according to Hanslick
- John Muir = avid nature listener
- silver pine = 'stradivarius of trees'
- could locate via just hearing
- the Aeolian 'erodes hard and fast distinctions between nature and technology'
- Thoreau = embraced a natural music == railroad, telegraph
- 'sphere music' -- a singular, terrestrial version of the music of the spheres
- 'privileges the Aeolian among all sounds in nature to the extent it was
capable of sensing magnitudes of sphere music at local and global scales'
- the 'telegraph harp'
- Student - 'Song of the Telegraph'
- Montana - Long Day - 'Song of the Talking Wire' by Farny. Confirm
superstitions.
- Buzz of telegraph wire mistaken for other physical effects
- Weather can affect
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Tudor Rainforest
- took its name from the Cunningham dance
- "dance", apparently
- objects = 'performers'
- objects as filters (my interpretation)
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Lucier "Music on a Long Thin Wire"

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Rainforest class object ideas
- purple bucket
- strange pedestal (drawback: not suitable to be damaged)
- lunch box
- speaker wire?
- shower basket thing
- laundry detergent box
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Final project ideas

- set of stock ticker type machines making noise when they detect something?
- detect "So-and-so's iPhone" bluetooth signal and print that name?