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Where in L.A. can I get my body fat measured by water immersion?
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at 4:02 PM on July 11, 2008
(3 comments)
Romanian speakers, get your radio ears on. What's
she singing? I'm trying to discern the name of this folk tune.
(nb.: Radio Romania itself is useless for this. No e-mail contact info on their Web site and no links or information to the "Skylark" radio program.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 2:13 PM on June 26, 2008
(4 comments)
Bulgarian speakers: What song is this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 11:02 PM on June 15, 2008
(6 comments)
Help me locate contemporary marching bands (or recordings thereof) who perform on turn-of-the-century instruments (ca. 1916).
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 2:56 PM on June 6, 2008
(4 comments)
I work on the production team for a long-running public radio program. We have a massive archive of shows in digital format (MP3 and AIFF) which we need to collate into a powerful and highly flexible database - something like iTunes, but much more advanced. Does a program exist to do this?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 3:36 PM on April 23, 2008
(5 comments)
Recommend a voice teacher in Los Angeles, if you please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 2:33 PM on March 11, 2008
(4 comments)
So, I'm taking up
powerbocking. As an athletic 31yo male (obsessive biker, reasonable runner, maintenance lifter) with a good sense of balance, how would you current users rate the learning curve? Assuming I put in one or two nights a week over the next six months, might I learn enough to get fluent (if not a little flashy) in time for a certain outdoor event in August?
Thoughts, anecdotes, tips, and the like are welcome. (Bonus points to Angelenos who can tell me about nice indoor padded spaces where I can go to practice...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 6:55 PM on February 24, 2008
(8 comments)
Yet another one of my crazy shortwave-radio song ID requests, this time (I believe) in Portuguese.
Please check it out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:51 PM on February 2, 2008
(2 comments)
PC laptop diagnostics and repair in L.A.: Recommendations, please.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 10:50 AM on January 24, 2008
(3 comments)
I need to do some highly sophisticated pitch-correction on some old reel-to-reel recordings. What software to use?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 8:09 PM on January 14, 2008
(13 comments)
At The Tone
An audiovisual history of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology's twin radio stations,
WWV and
WWVH: 51 tracks spanning 50 years, a 5,000-word essay, and a deluxe, full-color 32-page booklet crammed with ephemera. Produced with the full cooperation of NIST. To be released on
May 5, 2008. (Only eight years late! This was previously announced for publication in May 2000...)
posted to Projects by mykescipark
at 8:37 AM on January 6, 2008
I've just moved to L.A. and need immediate employment to provide some short-term financial security. Locals, who (or what) would you recommend? (e.g., What are the least insane and/or most humane temp agencies? What are some cool places to do menial, customer-facing work that actually pay a living wage?)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 10:41 AM on January 3, 2008
(13 comments)
Please recommend current-market analog cassette decks with superior signal/noise ratios.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:53 PM on December 12, 2007
(4 comments)
Help me transition from sound-art and experimental composition into film scoring. (Los Angeles.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 7:32 AM on November 14, 2007
(6 comments)
Will my data transfers stop timing out if I upgrade my laptop's DVD-RW drive?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 2:43 PM on October 16, 2007
(1 comment)
Yet another "name that crunching minimal electro tune" question.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:30 PM on August 20, 2007
(14 comments)
I'm taking a week off from working out to break a plateau. Should I dial down my eating as well or maintain my workout-level intake?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 8:42 PM on July 29, 2007
(1 comment)
Yet another "moving to SF on the cheap" question.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:00 PM on July 15, 2007
(15 comments)
MeFi Trainspotting Dept.: While most music consumers long ago traded up their sonically dodgy, graphically threadbare, non-bonus-enhanced early CD pressings of their favorite albums, a subculture has naturally arisen to absorb their discarded digital detritus. Witness
"Target CDs", a family which encompasses certain early West German and Japanese pressings on the Warner/Elektra/Atlantic (
WEA) labels.
So named for their
distinctive label design, Target CDs - unlike, say,
MFSL Gold CDs - make no particular claim to superior fidelity or longevity; in fact, due to their notorious "flat transfer" process from whatever version of the album happened to be lying around, it seems
quite the opposite. (Further evidence for the purely nostalgic and/or aesthetic value of these discs can be seen in the
"hypothetical Target CDs" threads.) Even so, as within any oddball subculture of collectordom, one can now expect to lay out
serious bucks for certain of these shiny little period pieces.
posted to MetaFilter by mykescipark
at 9:45 AM on June 3, 2007
(6 comments)
What exactly is wrong with my DAT Walkman?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 8:25 PM on April 21, 2007
(3 comments)
Shortwavemusic
Shortwavemusic is a newly-revived sound blog featuring music and/or musical noise intercepted via shortwave radio. Qu'ran chants, Russian piano ballads, Bulgarian vocal folksong, Indian film music swathed in shifting layers of cottony noise: it's an under-explored alternative for sound junkies with the right balance of adventurousness, patience, imagination, and an appreciation for the inexplicable.
posted to Projects by mykescipark
at 5:19 PM on April 18, 2007
RF Filter (literally): I'm using my trusty Sony
ICF-2010 shortwave radio (1990 vintage) with a brand-new Edirol
R-09 digital recorder. Unfortunately, once I hook up the R-09, it spits up digital noise all over the bands.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 6:58 PM on April 8, 2007
(6 comments)
Another one from the
Retrospective. Written when I was 15, I always considered this song to be a more or less blatant ripoff of Lush's “For Love.” The original lyrics were even more painfully awkward than these are, and I was stuck for years on how to improve upon them, but desperation finally took precedence over inspiration: I was literally scribbling them at stop lights on my way to the studio. Not a creative high point, then, but the production is among my sharpest. To their credit, the Science Park line-up of that time made a huge impact.
posted to MeFi Music by mykescipark
at 2:55 PM on March 13, 2007
(5 comments)
In the late '90s, I was the main guy behind an electronic art-pop band called
Science Park. After suffering a nervous breakdown in the winter of 2000, I disbanded the group and retreated from the music industry for six arduous years. Now thirty, I've just issued a
15-year retrospective of my life in sound and have
re-committed myself to my life's work with a raft of new projects. "Ascension Island" was first issued on a Japanese 7" single on Motorway Records in 2000, and later on my album
Disinformation (Obscure-Disk). A tale of love, espionage, and violence always just out of sight, it features my trademark drifting electronics, shortwave radio interceptions, and cool, clean singing. Enjoy.
posted to MeFi Music by mykescipark
at 9:26 AM on March 7, 2007
(7 comments)
IntervalSignalFilter: So, I have this archival recording of an
interval signal from shortwave station WSHB, Cypress Creek, SC. Is it an excerpt from any particular song?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 1:59 AM on March 4, 2007
(4 comments)
I have a strange affection for the syrupy, slightly outdated, epic-sounding vocal pop of female singers like
Eleni Vitali (Greece),
Selda Bagcan (Turkey),
Lata Mangeshkar (India), and the like. Who else would you recommend in this line?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 8:32 AM on February 11, 2007
(7 comments)
Has the "force seed" option been removed from the latest version of
Azureus (2.5.0.2)? It used to be a simple right-click away, but now I can't seem to locate it anywhere... (I've searched the
Wiki.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 7:45 AM on January 14, 2007
(5 comments)
Help me master the fine art of hooking up. (M4M, but all answers welcome.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 12:26 AM on December 6, 2006
(24 comments)
Recommend a recording studio in Metro Boston for doing reasonably-priced mixdowns from miscellaneous sources (ADAT, 4-track, DAT, hard disk, etc.).
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 4:58 PM on November 7, 2006
Training, silimming, and building at the dawn of one's thirties: tips, statistics, techniques? Way
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 2:29 AM on October 22, 2006
(7 comments)
Okay, Hive Ear. Identify this Bulgarian tune.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 11:27 PM on September 25, 2006
(1 comment)
MidEastMusicFilter: Ethnomusicologists and Middle Eastern-music fans, can you identify
this song? And, in any case, can you tell me more about the style of music to which it belongs?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 4:41 AM on September 18, 2006
(9 comments)
GreekMusicFilter. I taped
this song off of
Foni tis Elladas [Voice of Greece], the Greek shortwave radio station. Aficionados, any clue as to what the first song in the clip might be? (Perhaps the announcer tells you at 00:58...)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:41 PM on September 6, 2006
(2 comments)
Where in the San Francisco/Berkeley area can I get a truly good selection of Bulgarian music?
(By which I mean a BulgarianCDs.com-style selection, not the usual Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares stuff. HMV/Tower-type places probably don't apply.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 9:47 PM on July 31, 2006
(4 comments)
Prospective employer: "No Phone Calls Please." So, how to follow up on a resume submission?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 4:45 AM on July 23, 2006
(16 comments)
OncologyFilter: An immediate family member has colorectal cancer. I need advice and recommendations in several areas.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 4:03 AM on June 19, 2006
(14 comments)
Getting inked in Massachusetts. Where to go?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 9:22 PM on June 7, 2006
(13 comments)
Talk to me about yr lipo experiences.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:23 AM on May 6, 2006
(1 comment)
Help me find this particular brand of square "free weights."
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 7:45 PM on April 26, 2006
(4 comments)
BostonFilter: I'm annoyed that I can't find info about this online anywhere, but is the
MBTA doing their usual fare-free subway and bus rides on
Earth Day this year (4/22)? I'm having a housewarming party that day, and I want to invite all my out-of-town friends up early to frolic around town. Their Web site tells me nothing, nor does Boston.com.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:37 PM on April 19, 2006
(5 comments)
My iRiver U10 is freeze-happy.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 4:33 PM on April 6, 2006
(7 comments)
Funky stuff for my home in Greater Boston: Where?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 8:15 PM on March 28, 2006
(13 comments)
iTunes is creating duplicate copies of everything - and isn't faring too well with the id3 tags, either.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 5:36 AM on March 18, 2006
(4 comments)
Tell me what Joni Mitchell means to you.
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 9:17 AM on March 5, 2006
(45 comments)
Massachusetts residents, is my apartment legal?
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 3:30 PM on February 22, 2006
(21 comments)
Sound hounds, tell me: what's the source of my
AM radio noise? [Warning: MP3 link]
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 8:58 PM on February 8, 2006
(12 comments)
ShortWaveFilter (literally): My outboard noise canceller is actually
increasing the noise...
posted to Ask Metafilter by mykescipark
at 7:31 PM on January 28, 2006
(5 comments)
