by Kurt Knecht | Apr 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
As soon as I made yesterdays post, I received some comments via Twitter and Facebook about self-publishing. An interesting blog post from Clay Shirky also popped up on my Twitter feed at the same time.I think Clay gets it right when he says, “Publishing is not...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 17, 2012 | composers, kurt knecht, Uncategorized
I have a few thoughts about the state of things for composers that I will post over the next few days. Stay tuned for more exciting and depressing thoughts.I have a trusted friend who is a wonderful musical mind and a genuine and caring person. He happens to be an...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 8, 2012 | doppler shift, music, Uncategorized
Dr. Weiss wrote back and asked if it would be possible to produce any major (or minor) chord of higher or lower frequency using the Doppler shift.(You can read the previous post here.)The problem with this is that once we hit 340 m/s, we are at the sound barrier. As I...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 7, 2012 | doppler shift, music, Uncategorized
A physician friend phoned me the other day with an interesting problem. He was discussing the Doppler shift with some physics friends. They wondered if it was possible to hear a chord shift from major to minor due to the Doppler shift. If you don’t know anything about...
by Kurt Knecht | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Here’s a little 12 tone arrangement of the Passion Chorale that I scratched out in a few minutes the other day for our SPACE service. For all of you that don’t believe that I wrote serial music for 10 years, here’s the proof. Of course, this had to...
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