patrick smiths
Monday, April 30, 2007
  polytones
His tonal range is impressive and he has plenty of presence, but he builds phrases with the dry efficiency of a bricklayer. His long, unaccompanied, free-form rendition of Coltrane's great ballad "Naima" was more about scaffolding--vertical leaps and drops, looping patterns, variations in volume, polytones--than the heart of the song. (The best Coltranean moment was provided by Pattitucci. He rose from a spunky percussive duet by Blade and Hancock, who plucked and scraped the piano strings, with a shimmering, mantra-like solo. ). Hargrove played with a bold intensity, etching the air with thick swatches of color. But Miles comparisons aside, little of his playing stuck to the senses. The evening's standout soloist was Hancock, whose pianism had a kind of Steadicam command in sliding and skittering through the architecture of the songs without losing its balance or center.

polytones

polytones - Numbers Station with 1928 Science Video (polytones)
Numbers station "NNN" with footage from the 1928 silent science film, "Communication". Plus a few seconds of an odd polytonal "spy" broadcast.

Learn about spy numbers transmissions.

http://www.cvni.net/radio/nsnl/nsnl001/nsnl1intro.html

http://www.fiu.edu/~mizrachs/SW-numbers.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Images:
Communication (1927)
original available at:
The Prelinger Internet Archive
http://www.archive.org/index.php

Audio:
Irdial
The Conet Project - CD2, track 5, "NNN English" and CD2, track 39, High Pitch Polytone
http://irdial.hyperreal.org/
Duration of Video: 202
Related Labels: spy, numbers, radio, station



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