Interesting Links for 11-04-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Chechnya bans music with tempos deemed too fast or slow (outside 80 to 116 beats per minute)

(tags:music Chechnya wtf )

2. EU approves major overhaul of migration rules

(tags:migration Europe )

3. Moon turned inside out billions of years ago, NASA researchers say

(tags:NASA moon )

Comments

[symbioid]

I posted on FB when I saw the Chechnya link that there go my plans for moving to Chechnya and make some banging Islamic Splittercore tracks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOSGU6Ol90

wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedcore#Splittercore
"Speedcore is often called splittercore when the BPM count is between 600 and 1,000.[4] Splittercore is identified by its minigun sounding kicks. In the 1990s splittercore was sometimes referred to as nosebleed techno."

(though it appears that Extratone is the new fast with speeds in excess of 1M bpm. LOL.

[bens_dad]

1M bpm ? That is fast enough to be the *carrier* wave for Radio 4 Long Wave (198kHz) !
I've heard that certain computer programs can make the CPU broadcast radio frequency signals, but ...

(That page suggests that Extratone is anything above 1K bpm ?)

[symbioid]

I only really listen to breakcore out of these genres. The others are a bit silly (well, breackcore can be as well) but kudos for pushing boundaries to those folks.

I think I meant "Hypertone" is over 1m? Which I had never heard of, so the 1M was just nuts.

I make electronic music, but that's something I don't have the patience to figure out how they make over 1M BPM, seems like it's a lot of copy and pasting and re"scaling" the music.

My friend does amateur radio (in the US) has a license and stuff. Seems like an interesting hobby. I used to love Shortwave and all the interesting things you could find.

Oops. bpm != Hz

[bens_dad]

A minute isn't the same as a second !

So 198kHz would need at least 12M bps, but 1M bps is under 17kHz and a small child might hear it.

I don't know of any digital audio formats with MHz sampling, and was trying to imagine recording to tape at inches per minute and playing it back at high speed.

[magedragonfire]

I'm... pretty sure Hotel California does not have the BPM mentioned in that article. In fact, listening to it, I'm pretty sure it would be too slow for Chechnya's liking.

(Good luck with that working out, bros.)

[channelpenguin]

I sung that sung a lot at one point, with covers bands. It definitely feels halftime of that 147. It could be formally written at 147 but played with a halftime feel. I had endless discussions with my musical collaborator sometimes about time signatures of our own stuff. I feel it's pretty arbitrary and double or half can be perfectly valid ways of representing it. Drummers and bassists may have stronger opinions, because they often are more aware of what feels like the first beat of the bar, and how often they are.

By the way... Opinions either way here...

https://songbpm.com/@eagles/hotel-california-823a5ec3-5e7c-4e2b-8755-2201c7a52df3

[bens_dad]

The two commonest types of tune for Scottish Country Dancing are Reels and Strathspeys.
To a dancer, at about 112bpm Reels are faster than Strathspeys. It definitely takes longer to dance the same steps as a Strathspey time than as a Reel.

However, to a non-musician, there appear to be two schools of thought on Strathspeys; some are written at about 60bpm but others are notated differently and marked somewhere around 120bpm.

This suggests that there is an absence of unanimity about what a beat is, so this law could be great "fun" :-(