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Hey Strabo

From The Bones

https://thedurds.bandcamp.com/album/bring-on-the-cr-mant

John Patch

Altered portrait of Thomas Glass, in the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Wellcome Collection.

Thomas Glass

Bring On The Crémant

The London Clay

Sensitive Guy

Cucumber Mosaic Virus Rampages Through My Field

Source material: 'Intonation' (1972) - essays edited by Dwight Bolinger, mainly 'Machines and Measurements' by Pierre R. Leon and Philippe Martin (1970)

The Melodic Analyser of the University of Toronto

Four filter channels from seventy to five hundred hertz 
Rejecting the second harmonic and isolating the first
The intonation curve is traced on the screen as the speaker speaks 
from a tape of a conversation on a busy Parisian street

Vous nous avez tous vus dans la rue?

A perfect reflection of the fundamental frequency
To the elements of melodic perception, reacting accurately

Phonemes explode from parted lips, aperiodic 
Vibrating chords, the rise and fall of speech, melodic 
Overlapping vocal overtones above the din
The fundamental underneath when we speak and when we sing

Vous nous avez tous vus dans la rue?

A perfect reflection of the fundamental frequency
To the elements of melodic perception, reacting accurately

The Melodic Analyser of the University of Toronto

Further reading: "The Biography of a Grizzly" by  Ernest Thompson Seton (1900)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25023/25023-h/25023-h.htm

The Cubhood of Wahb

Essential reading: 'The End of General Gordon' (from 'Eminent Victorians') by Lytton Strachey.

Photo: St Michael & All Angels Church, Heavitree, Exeter - attributed to Derek Harper.

Prebendary Barnes

"...seems to dovetail humour with lovely melodies and surrealism. In short we are fans." - Stephen Parker (FreeRange Music - thesource.fm)

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