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I'm thankful there is air all around me. In the vast blackness of deep-space, you would never hear Half Acre Day coming. How could one ever appreciate their intricate superposition of spherical pressure waves if one were in a vacuum? Instead of appreciating their complex harmonies, we would all be busy in the act of asphyxiation!
So let’s rejoice we're all in this 'cab', taken for a ride at 1 Astronomic Unit, around this fusion blast furnace known as the Sun. Be happy that its atmospheric envelope causes this music to be brought to you at the speed of sound; inducing capacitative changes in microphones to save it for posterity.
Let’s leave it up to the electron to traverse the vacuum in the amps' triode and pentode tubes, or jump the p-n silicon junctions, allowing these sounds to be produced, recorded and reproduced such that ear membranes vibrate, ossicles oscillate, nerve cells fire, and axions perform their intricate ion-exchange dance so that our brains will register them. After that there is only one thing left to do: enjoy!
by Jos van Schagen, PhD
Half Acre Day's new full-length, Fourteen Trips Around the Sun, is available now online, and at your local record store. If your local record store doesn't have it, tell them to stock Half Acre Day!
Other artistic endeavors H.A.D. is involved in:
http://www.myspace.com/valupaksmack - One of Paul's other bands
http://www.myspace.com/autoaudiomedia - Another one of Paul's bands
http://www.myspace.com/calebandwalter - Yet another one of Paul's bands
http://www.dustyhaze.com/ - Dusty Haze's art and music
http://www.bongodogdesigns.com/ - - Dusty Haze's design
http://www.mattkristiansen.com/ - Matt Kristiansen's design work
http://www.audiovisible.tv/ - Marty Ballew's student made music videos
http://www.threadless.com/submission/240040/Internal_Driver - Matt Cory's tee designs
http://www.matthewcorydesign.com/ - Matt Cory's illustrations and design
http://www.mcphee.com - the toy/novelty company Matt C has designed for during the last decade
Check us and other good bands out on these great music sites:
thesixtyone.com
ourstage.com
Garageband.com
Number 153 peak CMJ charts - Jan '08
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