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Hello everyone! We’ve got a lot of good stuff in the works. In 2019, Los Doggies will release 2 albums — one light and one dark. I think this is some of the best music we’ve made and I can’t wait to share it with you, whosoever you are!

Adobe is discontinuing Flash in 2020, so most of this website will unfortunately not work. I didn’t anticipate that Flash would be rendered obsolete when I started this blog 10 years ago. Oh well! In the meantime, I have to convert the entire website to HTML5 (I know, “Shut up nerd!”), but once completed it should make the site function on all devices. Imagine clicking widgets in the palm of your hand!

Did you know most of our early music is available for free download on Bandcamp?

Our next show is the 7th annual Ludwig Day, a New Paltz event to celebrate the life of our dear friend Ludwig Montesa.

Thanks for listening as always!

Love,

Evan

French Sounds

Ave Maria. It’s very sad that Notre Dame caught fire, but it looks like she’ll pull through. I thought we’d have a fun irreverent post about French sounds.

The Parisian Ambulance is how you say clownish. Click on the score below to loop or stop.

The Parisian Ambulance plays a Major Third, somewhere around an Ab to a C. As the ambulance passes, the siren drops a semitone or two as per the Doppler Effect. This three-tone siren is supposed to request priority for the ambulance but isn’t as threatening as the aggressive two-tone found on other emergency vehicles.

There are many other emergency tones used in European cities. We’ll go over them here on this blog, so check back soon!

The Art of Singing

Here’s a funny little bit from The Art of Singing by Caruso and Tetrazzini. I’ll be back with a review soon. Can you move a piano with your diaphragm? How about your voice?

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March Show

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Anchor Show

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November Show

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Sonar

Here’s some sonar, baby. Click the notehead below to ping it.

This is a classic sonar ping in E as heard in Hollywood movies. Sonar today sounds more like a moog synthesizer with rising and falling tones, squirrely pitch-bends, like an electric bird, but back in the day, the sonar was a simple tone. The ping is an actual sound played on an underwater speaker. The Sonarman waits for an echo to see what’s in the water on a visual display.

There are many sounds under the ocean that are difficult to identify—the pan fry of a shrimp bed, the hammering of a sperm whale, the boing monster—among the more common whale songs, porpoise chatter, and geologic noise. Some sounds like the bloop are still uncertain.

All these sounds are known to the Sonarman. Beneath the squalls and surf, he can make out the sexy nymph tone.

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