#neum

[the-taste-of-vanilla]

[radiogornjigrad]

Marko Raguž: Neumske priče

Pučina plava Spava, Prohladni pada mrak. Vrh hridi crne Trne Zadnji rumeni zrak. I jeca zvono; — Bono, Po kršu dršće zvuk; S uzdahom tuge Duge Ubogi moli puk. Kleče mršave Glave Pred likom boga svog. Ištu… No tamo, Samo Ćuti raspeti bog… I san sve bliže Stiže. Prohladni pada mrak. Vrh hridi crne Trne Zadnji rumeni zrak. ALEKSA ŠANTIĆ („Veče na školju“ – pjesma napisana 1904. Godine) . PUČINA…

[stranicadnevnika]

Jučer sunce, jutros kiša! 💙⚓️☀️🌍✌️🏊🏊‍♀️🍉🏖

[travelella]

Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mujo Hasanovic

[upennmanuscripts]

Today's #YearOfHours #BookOfHours is Ms. Codex 1063, produced in England, probably London, perhaps for a member of a religious confraternity or community. The musical notation in the Office of the Dead is unusual, as is the absence of the prayers Obsecro te and O intemerata.

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[mattgoatfield]

feeling sad rn. i miss the steelers

[n4b4r1]

(oc) neume

[fish-and-forbear]

Neumes spoke up for the 3rd time and instantly made wonderful connections... T_T I am so prouddd...

He... actually let down his guard and formality a bit. I didn't realize he could be so silly and strange. When he gets excited, he repeats words a LOT, but in a very goofy and happy way. It's like he is stimming with words? I think I do that sometimes, but he is VERY extra about it.

The conversation that triggered him to finally speak up was actually extremely sweet and not what I was expecting. Too tired to be specific and it doesn't feel right to be specific here anyway.

It was just very, very sweet.

He had such a nice evening and did splendid. He really let down his overly defensive self and opened up in very sweet and gentle ways. He is an extremely silly person, and a very good person. I am happy that he is here, and that we are connected

- Fisher

[aerikarkadian]

Running the Gamut - a musical etymology

In the 11th century, Christian monks were facing an interesting problem. Their repertoire of chants, which was passed down orally, was constantly growing. It grew so large, in fact, that it would have taken about 10 years to learn. To top it off, all of the liturgy needed to be kept consistent between churches and orders. Forgetting (or even just misremembering) a song could have meant it would…

[houghtonlib]

Music a millennium old

Fragment of a missal, a book containing the texts for celebrating Mass, from approximately 1000 CE. The smaller text is a passage of Gregorian chant with neumes, an early form of musical notation.

MS Typ 773

Houghton Library, Harvard University

[musictheoryaugmented]

It’s cool that you know so much about neumes. Anyway, I remember regularly waiting for the dialup Internet to load…this:

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[aristotels]

My Viet family says that American tourists are like big rich babies - soft and uneducated but generally good-tempered, generous with cash, asking a lot of questions, smiling a lot. The Western Europeans especially the French will complain incessantly and cheap out at every opportunity.

by dada batinić:

"Americans rant non-stop and destroy your nerves immediately at the bus station. There is not a single sentence in them without at least two sub-sticks and you can see why our man succeeds in the foreign world. They heard about Croatia for the first time while playing a board game. Six of them gathered and one stuck his finger on the map to see where the guys will go this year before college. His finger also pointed at the neighbouring countries, but, unlike Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, Krejša is on the sea. They have never heard of Neum either. On the plane, they googled everything about our history from the seventh century onwards, checked out prices of the whores and food and are surprised that we know what Wi-Fi is. You tell them to get out before you even get to the apartment.

[captainofthetidesbreath]

I've been thinking about teletherics and mica, especially since the appendices for 3.02 is a pocket guide to telethric transduction.

Teletherics is an Un-based technology, and teletheric waves aren't Fold-safe; the appendices for 1.05 mention that they need to be converted for rebroadcast into the Fold along cables for that reason. So, you can't transmit teletheric waves through the Fold. This is also suggested by the fact that Kozma's agenda lists all her teletheric calls after she leaves Midst; she can't have done it before then, in the Fold.

Apparently, teletherics can involve mica. The art of Backpack and her teletheric equipment includes a parabolic dish that uses a shard of mica as a feed antenna. Seeing as teletheric receivers, such as Ginsberg's in the icon for 1.03 and Hieronymous's in art for 3.02, don't feature visible mica, I presume then that her equipment is using it for transmission. If teletheric waves are transmitted using mica, that may explain why they're not Fold-safe. Teletheric signals are, of course, created using specially-boculated electric currents. A mica antenna would interact with that, then radiate it to a receiving teletheric transducer.

As a sidebar, the breakdown of the word teletheric is also very interesting to me: tele- + aetheric. I wonder if the Un is as empty as it seems to be when in compared to the Fold. Perhaps there is some stuff out there in the Un that they have not yet learned to measure. Or, perhaps teletheric is aetheric in the sense of aether theory and the transmission of waves through a medium. Or, in the sense of luminiferous aether and old theories on the movement of light. Or, perhaps in the sense of the mythological personification of the bright upper sky.

If mica is capable of transmitting teletheric waves, how do teletheric signals interact with the mica fields of the Un? Radio engineering is not as simply as any old piece of metal can act as an antenna, there's electric currents and what-not, but in this fantasy world in which our understanding of teletherics and mica is limited, it is a question. (And who is to say that things don't work slightly differently in the cosmos.) Do teletheric signals interact with mica bergs at all? Does wild mica bounce those signals across the Un?

If mica transmits signals, waves, does it have resonance then? Does it vibrate? Do mica bergs make sound as they float through the Un, and is it audible? Or, does it resonate a tone that is below the typical threshold of human hearing, like the third sound of a superfluid?

Hell, while I'm asking questions. Can someone end up with the opposite of what Lark has with the Fold, where they can hear mica resonating through the Un? Is there some soul out there, cosmos whispering to them, who can hear its crystalline tones resonating out across the Un, or the sound of lightning in the Delta or unships passing through the upper Un bouncing off the bergs, or teletheric signals transmitting out through the mica?

But, I'm getting ahead of myself: mica and teletherics and the transmission of sound. I think about teletherics and the shapes of all associated with it. Priathic notation reminds me of neumes, or even modern notation with beams but no stems. The impulses are tonal and have harmonics. Teletheric transducers uses fluted pipes, and those pipes make them look like small pipe organs. With that—

Does mica sing? Can you hear it if you tune in just right?

[travelella]

Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Zac Wolff

[cheapsweets]

The Mellifluous Gibemlut

My response to this week’s BestiaryPosting challenge, from @maniculum

Pencil sketch, then lines in Pentel brush pen.

Thought process under the cut…

"The Gibemlut, [redacted], gets its name from the act of castration. For alone among other birds its testicles are removed, and the ancients called castrated men [redacted]."

Okay, so strong start here… Not quite sure where they're going with this, maybe there's some kind of reference to the higher singing vocal range of a castrato? Given that birds have internal testicles, that's the only thing I can think of which would make the author zero in on why exactly this specific bird and not the others is missing theirs. Alternatively, maybe there's some kind of weird religious metaphor that I'm blissfully unaware of…?

Wasn't quite sure how to represent this, I considered showing a bit of a concave shape to the bird's undercarriage, but ended up leaving this to the author's imagination…

"People say that the Gibemlut’s limbs, if mixed with liquid gold, are consumed by it. The calling of the Gibemlut at night is a pleasant sound, and not only pleasant but useful; like a good partner, the Gibemlut wakes you when are asleep, encourages you if you are worried, comforts you if you are on the road, marking with its melodious call the progress of the night. [It goes on like this, soon transitions into a digression on the symbolism of the Gibemlut’s call, and then continues on that theme for multiple pages.]"

For starters, I suspect that if you pour molten gold on the limbs of any small creature, they're just going to burn up… An early thought about what to draw was al alchemists lab, but I ended up depicting the Gibemlut in its natural habitat rather than dismembered in a laboratory for a bunch of obvious reasons.

So, we have a nocturnal bird, hence the drab, camouflaged plumage (based loosely on that of the European nightjar), and a very large eye for seeing better at night. We have a shortish beak that can open wide, all the better for snapping up nocturnal bugs and, of course, singing! I considered adding some whiskers, but I'm not confident about drawing fine lines with the brush pen yet!

Obviously we have a night time scene, and I figured I'd include a stave to represent the Gibemlut's music. I picked the notes by taking this creature's name, and removing the letters that don't appear in an octave scale… I went down quite a rabbit hole of musical notation, but rather than learning how to represent something completely new to me (such as neume, the basic elements of a lot of european notation prior to the invention of the musical stave) I figured I'd go for something easier and more immediately understandable...

In the background we can see a pilgrim (badges on her hat and hanging from her pilgrim's staff) being comforted, encouraged, as well as kept alert, as she listens to the delicate song of the Gibemlut as she walks…