Getting to the other side
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Getting to the other side
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
To learn - read. To know - write. To master - teach . . .
POI THEO(R)IST
peace and light
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
To learn - read. To know - write. To master - teach . . .
Written by: GeoffonTour04
Good stuff, use of the word octaves is a little strange as it has nothing to do with timing but I'll let that go.
+Alien Jon
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Written by: Durbs
Side point: So if you're doing continual 4:1 polyrhythmic spinning, would you end up with a half-relaxed/half-excited audiance member?
+Alien Jon
Burner of Toast
Spinner of poi
Slacker of enormous magnitude
Written by: Durbs
Puh - bloody hippies...
They'll be trying to re-define "dance" next
+Alien Jon
Written by: AlienJonWritten by: GeoffonTour04
Good stuff, use of the word octaves is a little strange as it has nothing to do with timing but I'll let that go.
I beg to differ. "octave" indeed has at least something to do with "timing". Think past a strict music theory interpretation of "timing" and "octave". Andy is emphasizing RPMs with poi after all. As far as the realm of the auditory is concerned, however, the periodicity and rate of a repeating pattern of beats can be expressed as cycles per second, no? Below a certain frequency (don't know it off the top of my head) we discern beats, above a certain frequency and we perceive a tone. So in some sense isn't FrequencyX*2^n an octave of FrequencyX even if one sounds like beats, and one sounds like a tone? All you need to do to experience this 1st hand is play around with a delay effect. with a quick enough frequency the echoes become a "cone filter" and you get a pervasive overtone (ie sounds like nitrous, or that sh!z in the middle of the average Dieselboy set).
In pointing out the shift in perception when we cross a certain frequency threshold, hopefully I've illuminated an important aspect of what I think Andy is really getting at:
as we cross different thresholds of poi rpm we perceive different qualities. For instance, spin the slowest flower you can. The onlooker perceives consecutive circles, traveling in a compound circle manner. Now spin it as fast as you can. The onlooker perceives the trail as a spirograph pattern (an epitrochoid in this case).
-Alien Jon
+Alien Jon
'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
To learn - read. To know - write. To master - teach . . .