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Etichette:
Avantgarde,
Fashion Design,
Johann
How to Build your Own Living Structures
© 1974 by Ken Isaacs
'' Harmony Books ''
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Etichette:
Johann
Concept 51k
Design by Hartmut Esslinger - Produced by Wega Radio GmbH
Fellbach / Stuttgart [DE] 1979

There's a lot to be said for reducing the size of audio equipment to compact integrated units. Their biggest advantage is that they require stunningly little space. Wega have built such compact units for many years, but the present pack is an unprecedented example of how neatly and consistently the integrated system can be perfected. Functionally, the four audio components in this system are quite indipendent, but from a casing and aesthetic point of view they are all breaketed together by a joint chassis for the integrated amp, the tuner, the cassette deck and the turntable - the whole technology of it being enveloped as by a body stocking. The turntable cover has a see-through aperture in it so you can see the pickup and the record, but the controls are positioned outside so that you don't interfere with them while doing your thing.
One of the many outstanding gadgets in this compact unit is that some well-concealed circuitry will optimise the sound quality of incoming stereo signals. More precisely, it's called the ''ASS-Circuit'' and designed to automatically and continuously reduce the stereo effect from a remote transmitter to just that degree which is required to cut out noise, in other words, it's a matter of perpetually approaching or moving away from mono quality in line with the quality of the incoming signal. As a new option, Wega products can now be had in light grey instead of their traditional black. The Concept 51 K music centre is supplemented by a matching floor-based desk-type unit for greater operating convenience.
reference informations and monocrome images taken from
MD magazine | June 1979's Issue
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Etichette:
Johann
( Johann / May 09 )
Arnold Schoenberg > Mondestrunken
( Arnold Schoenberg - "Pierrot Lunaire" melodrama Op21; Chamber Symphony No1 [BMG] 1912 )
Aphex Twin > Come to Daddy (Mummy Mix)
( Aphex Twin - "Come to Daddy" [Warp Records] 1997 )
Jackson and His Computer Band > Oh Boy
( Jackson and His Computer Band - "Smash" [Warp Records] 2005 )
Zu > Eli, Eli, Elu
( Zu - "Igneo" [Wide Records] 2002 )
Richard Devine > Partition Refinement
( Richard Devine - "Aleamapper" [Schematic] 2001 )
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft > Verlier Nicht Den Kopf
( Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - "Alles Ist Gut" [Virgin Schallplatten GmbH] 1981 )
Frank zappa & Ensemble Modern > III Revised
( Frank zappa & Ensemble Modern - "The Yellow Shark" [Intercord Record Service] 1993 )
Puzzleweasel > Acancia
( Puzzleweasel - "Exo-Grid" [Sublight] 2007 )
Octet > Zwischenspiel
( Octet - "Cash & Carry Songs" [Diamond Traxx] 2004 )
The Matthew Herbert Big Band > Turning Pages
( The Matthew Herbert Big Band - "Goodbye Swingtime" [Accidental] 2003 )
( Bonus track )
Rob Mullender & Isobel Clouter > Baorittaolegainuoer / Natural Booming
( Aa.Vv. - "Uovo No14" [The Bookmakers Ed.] 2007 )
Etichette:
Johann,
Music,
Neo Romantic,
Post Decadentism
( My Haircut is Better than Yours )
(First Part)
Beauty as always been dependent on fashion. Each age has concentrated on different parts of the female body, from the Cretan ladies who left their bosoms bare to the 1970's girls who showed their legs from the hot pants down. What all previous ages had in common is an admiration for women's hair which was traditionally regarded as her crowning glory.
For the girl of the twenties, long hair was an incovenience and not even Mary Pickford [1] 's appealing ringlets which were making their appearance in silent pictures could stop women from bobbing [2] their hair. For many it was an expression of confidence in themeselves as equals in a man's world that made them cut their hair, in defiance of his wishes and to show how themeselves as assertive as he could be. The shorter the hair, the more manly the clothes became, culminating in the most unattractive Eton crop which appeared in 1926. Women were more or less forced to cut their hair by the universal and enduring fashion for the cloche hat [3] which simply could not be worn attractively with long hair. Ultra-smart women devised eccentric forms of male hairdressing for evening parties. Lovely blondes were nicknamed les coques d'or because they curled the straight ends of their short golden locks and then brushed them into a peak resembling a roosters comb. Another parted their hair at the back near the right ear, oiled it and then combed it sideways from left to right. Hair oil was used and the ingenious girls used a dilute sugar water mixture to keep their shingle curls in place. Ladies went to men's hairdressers who charged their prices, from 2 half pounds upped to 17 half pounds.
Ladies' salons were opened early on in the decade.
[3] cloche hat is a fitted, bell-shaped hat that was popular during the 1920's (cloche is the French word for bell)
Etichette:
Johann
The Cocktail Party

In un contesto rumoroso e caotico, dove siamo bombardati da migliaia di stimoli spesso impercettibili, all'improvviso può capitare di distinguere qualcosa chiaramente, che attira la nostra attenzione. Pensiamo ad un caso reale, in cui ci si può facilmente immedesimare.
Siamo ad una festa, musica, vociare, rumori vari giungono alle nostre orecchie indistintamente. La situazione é confusionaria, ma in un dato momento, 'quella' voce colpisce la nostra attenzione. Questo fenomeno é già noto, fin dal 1953, ed é conosciuto come effetto Cocktail Party , termine coniato dallo scienziato inglese E.C.Cherry che per primo ne studiò le dinamiche : di fronte ad un sovraccarico continuo e insistente di stimoli, l'uomo riesce ad essere immediatamente reattivo nell'istante in cui percepisce qualcosa che gli interessa. La definizione prende questo nome proprio perché la festa é tipicamente il luogo dove si verifica questo fenomeno, ma potremmo dire, che nella rumorosa società attuale, senza questa capacità avremmo serie difficoltà nel relazionarci a vicenda. Se questo processo era già noto, non si sapeva però da quale ragione o meccanismo cerebrale derivasse. Alexander Gutschalk, dell'Università Rupecht-Karl di Heidelberg, riferisce la sua scoperta alla rivista Plos Biology. L'effetto 'Cocktail Party' si origina nella corteccia uditiva secondaria del lobo temporale. Lo studio che ha condotto a questa scoperta é stato effettuato con l'ausilio della Magnetoencefalografia. E' stato monitorato l'effetto, ovvero é stata registrata l'area cerebrale attiva nel momento in cui un soggetto era in grado di identificare un rumore tra tanti indistinti. Questi risultati innanzitutto confermano scientificamente l'esistenza del fenomeno. Non stupisce che l'area stimolata si trovi proprio nella corteccia secondaria; é qui, infatti, che le percezioni umane vengono integrate ed arricchite con elementi di complessità.
Etichette:
Johann
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