[NewMusic] Skronkathon 07

[Tom Duff]

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Cypod wrote:

> It could have been the trumpet? Or even the oscillator? I should
> clarify, something was too loud during that set, and several others
> during the day's performance. Many people like listening to really
> loud music, I tolerate it better with ear plugs.

There was definitely stuff that was too loud at the Skronkathon. I left
the room for jay & mikey's set (it sounded great from the alleyway --
there's bad loud and good loud) and I put in earplugs for Mute Socialite,
on Moe's advice.  The closing set didn't strike me as dangerously loud,
though I enjoyed the intermod happening in my ear canals, so it was at
least loud enough to drive my peripheral audio system into nonlinearity
(earplugs would have spoiled the effect.)  Mind you, I don't believe I
have ever in my life heard a sound that was loud enough to cause me pain,
(including turbofans 20 ft overhead and the East Brother foghorn at a 50
ft range) although I certainly can tell when something is loud enough that
my ears will ring when I get home.  That's when I leave the room or put in
the orange plugs.

> On an interesting side note, I have heard that young people are better
> able to hear certain high frequencies.

I'm 54 or 55, and the high end of my hearing has definitely rolled off,
say above 14 or 16 kHz.  But ma++'s clarinet was several octaves below 
that range (except for upper harmonics.)

-- 
Tom Duff.  I would gladly play for you Tuesday for a hamburger today.