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Thursday, 1 May 2008

Albert Hoffman R.I.P.

AT THE GRAND OLD AGE OF 102,
albert takes his celestial bike ride for the last time,
so long, and thanx fer all the MUSIC!!!
(and the art, and the scientific breakthroughs, and
on and on...)

...we have also sound-houses, where we practise and demonstrate all sounds, and their generation. We have harmonies which you have not, of quarter-sounds, and lesser slides of sounds. . We represent and imitate all articulate sounds and letters, and the voices and notes of beasts and birds. We have certain helps which set to the ear do further the hearing greatly. We have also divers strange and artificial echoes, reflecting the voice many times, and as it were tossing it: and some that give back the voice louder than it came, some shriller, and some deeper; yea, some rendering the voice differing in the letters or articulate sound from that they receive. We have also means to convey sounds in trunks and pipes, in strange lines and distances.

- from “The New Atlantis” by Sir Francis Bacon, in 1623 AD