“Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.” WayHumansWellsChildrenLittlesMightYoungBitsSoundMemoriesBoysTroubleHigherSticksInstinctFlightNervousPianoWheelsClimbsAviationSensationsPilotsRootedTextbooksNervous SystemLeversPedalsWay ForwardThrottle Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche
“There are things about how a note sounds on a violin that are really analogous to the human voice - you have a frequency and the air, and then you have a timbre which really is overtones - and making those things work together is one thing. The other thing is mechanical: If you can use your hands and arms to create sound on a fiddle, then learning to sing with it is like adding a third body part. And it's all training.” IfsHumansUseBodyHandsTogetherSoundVoiceOne ThingAirArmsTrainingThirdsNotesWorking TogetherFrequencyViolinFiddleHuman VoiceTimbre Author:Bruce Molsky
“Mariah Carey is my favorite singer because her voice sounds utterly groundless. It's not even a human voice; it almost sounds mechanical.” HumansSoundVoiceMy FavoriteSingersHuman VoiceFavorite Singer Author:Grimes
“The vast majority of abortions are performed between the seventh and tenth week when the baby is already sucking his thumb, recoiling from pricking, responding to sound. All his organs are present, the brain is functioning, the heart is pumping, the liver is making blood cells, the kidneys are cleaning fluids, and there is a fingerprint. His genetic code is uniquely and unquestionably human. And, if we are willing, he can be seen by ultrasound.” IfsHumansHeartSoundBrainBloodWeekWillingBabyMajorityCellsCodeAbortionOrgansCleaningThumbsFluidRespondingLiverKidneysFingerprintsUltrasoundsBlood Cells Author:John Piper