By Jed Gottlieb | March 17, 2019 at 10:34 pm Nobody would ever confuse Boston with Surf City, USA. But surf rock king Dick Dale began to develop the surf rock sound as a musician right here. Dick Dale, who died Sunday at age 81, was born in Boston and raised in Quincy. As he swapped his cheap ukulele for his signature Fender Stratocaster, he began to synthesize a few styles: the music of his Lebanese relatives around Boston, the honky-tonk of Hank Williams, the primal pounding of Gene Krupa’s drums and boom of rock ‘n’ roll. Dale laid the foundation for his surf sound tinkering on instruments while at Quincy High School in the ’50s — a combo you can clearly hear in his take on the Middle Eastern melody “Misirlou.” Of course it wasn’t until his family relocated to Southern California that he hit it big with the sound and ’60s singles like “Let’s Go Trippin’” and a hit album “Surfers’ … [Read more...] about Gottlieb: Surf Rock King Dick Dale caught first sound wave in Quincy
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Missing MH370: Mystery Deepens as Sound Waves Suggest Alternative Travel Route—But the Data Is Missing
Opinion Motivated by a desire to help find Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which is believed to have crashed into the southern Indian Ocean in March 2014, we proposed a way of working out where objects hit the surface of the ocean using underwater acoustic waves. Unfortunately this didn’t lead to finding the plane. However, our research into these waves has moved on since we first proposed the idea in 2017, and we have now been able to identify two locations where the aeroplane could have impacted with the ocean, as well as an alternative route that the plane may have taken. When you drop a pebble in a lake, water waves are generated from the location of the impact, while sound waves create the splashing noise you hear. Another type of wave is generated inside the water too: Hydroacoustic. Similar to a sound wave, hydroacoustic waves move much slower through the denser water than they would through air—1,500 metres per second (m/s), compared to 340m/s. Similarly, when a … [Read more...] about Missing MH370: Mystery Deepens as Sound Waves Suggest Alternative Travel Route—But the Data Is Missing
Serious Sounds Etc. 25 Years of Entrepreneurship
HOUSTON – Some people live a lifetime sorting through various careers and are still unable to attain the perfect match to satisfy their fulfillment. On the contrary Marketta R. Rodriguez, owner of Serious Sounds Etc., has not. On December 14, 1991, she set out on a mission that nestled both her hobby and career in unison. Twenty-five years later, she is in the process of celebrating her stint of success operating as a Black business owner in the same community she was raised in. Marketta Rodriguez is a native Houstonian of South Park. Her parents Joseph and Grace Rodriguez reared her and her brother Joseph Nathaniel, as devout Catholics at the St. Peter’s Catholic Church. Her passion for music developed at an early age. As a child, every Saturday morning she and her brother were required to do chores. While doing so, her mother always turned on the stereo for background music. During those days, there was no specific classification for genres of music aired, back then it … [Read more...] about Serious Sounds Etc. 25 Years of Entrepreneurship
Metallica launches whiskey ‘shaped’ by sound waves from band’s music
Josh Hafner USA TODAY Published 4:33 p.m. UTC Aug 30, 2018 Heavy metal icon Metallica announced its own whiskey that the band claims is "shaped" by blasting its music directly into the distilled spirit. A former West Point chemistry professor collaborated with the band on the whiskey, called "Blackened," which rolls out to select states this fall. Blaring a playlist of Metallica tracks hand-picked by the band results in "low-hertz sound waves so intense that it actually enhances the molecular interaction" of the whiskey and alters its flavor, the band said in a statement. Much of a new whiskey's success comes down to the story behind it, and Metallica has a good one: Dave Pickerell, the distiller behind the whiskey, is a chemistry engineer who once taught at the military academy in West Point, New York. There, he recalled in a statement, low notes from a massive church organ would reverberate through the halls, the lowest of … [Read more...] about Metallica launches whiskey ‘shaped’ by sound waves from band’s music
NASA studies the sun’s noises, and here’s what they sound like
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A new video released by NASA reveals the noises of the sun's movement -- including all of its sound waves, loops and eruptions. For over 20 years, data from the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the "dynamic movement" of the sun's atmosphere. The sounds allow scientists to study what can't be observed with the naked eye. "Waves are traveling and bouncing around inside the sun, and if your eyes were sensitive enough they could actually see this," said Alex Young, associate director for science in the Heliophysics Science Division at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The data from SOHO captures the sun's natural vibrations and provides scientists with a concrete representation of its dynamic movements. It will allow scientists to study a range of complex motions inside the sun, from solar flares to coronal mass ejections. NASA is anticipating that the Parker Solar Probe will launch … [Read more...] about NASA studies the sun’s noises, and here’s what they sound like