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#Boston, you might as well leave the house this weekend (April 11-13ish, 2025). Your weekly thread of Things To Do is back, hello, hello #Massachusetts!
#BostonWeekend 1/x
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Thursday 4p-9p - The #Fabville #MakerSpace at #SomervilleMA High hosts a Networking Night Openhouse/Openshop - free! Play with lasers.
#BostonWeekend 2/x
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Thursday 7p - Pub Sing @ #SomervilleArmory, free https://artsatthearmory.org/events/pub-sing-6-2025-04-10/
#SomervilleMA #BostonMusic
#BostonWeekend 3/x
Pub Sing - The Center for the Arts at the Armory

Join in with chorus songs that are easy to learn and fun to sing

The Center for the Arts at the Armory
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#Boston Weekend weather:
Thurs: 36F-50F, mostly sunny
Fri: 37F-47F, clouds
Sat: 40F, half inch rain
Sun: 41F-45F, half inch rain again ugh
Mon/Tues: back to the 60s, sunny sometimes
#MAwx
#BostonWeekend 4/x
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Live Music Most nights - tiny bar Toad in #CambridgeMA is back, Christopher’s is now McCarthys - live Irish session music nightly, run by our friends at The Burren in #SomervilleMA https://www.mccarthystoad.com/calendar
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/07/arts/toad-music-venue-reopens-porter-square/
#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 5/x
Calendar — McCarthys and Toad

McCarthys and Toad
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Thursday - #CaravanPalace @ Royale
French band - electronic music, vintage #jazz, swing, and live instrumentation. Sold out, resale available. Think #DjangoReinhardt x #DaftPunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnSd97-lUCM
https://royaleboston.com/event/caravan-palace-2/
#BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 6/x
Caravan Palace - MAD (Official MV)

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Friday - #Mogwai at the ‘dise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZocDT3TmAE
https://crossroadspresents.com/pages/more-info-event?eventid=vv1AvZk79GkeTyaGm
#Postrock #Scottish #BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 7/x
Mogwai // Coolverine (Official Video)

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Friday - 1pm and 8pm, free - Holden Chapel @ #Harvard #CambridgeMA - infra-sonic, sub-woofer, modular #synth concert with Sound Lab Artist-in-Residence Retribution Body and guest performer #AshaTamirisa
This looks super cool if you’re into synthy music or putting unexpected sounds in beautiful/historic spaces - the 1pm show is tuning all the gear to the resonance of the Chapel, and the 8pm thing is the show.

https://retributionbody.bandcamp.com/
https://ssl.fas.harvard.edu/calendar_event/air1-workshop/

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1825340-Retribution-Body

#Synthesizers #churches #BostonMusic
#BostonWeekend 8/x

Retribution Body

M Azevedo (b. 1977) is a Providence, RI based composer, mastering engineer, and acoustician. Their work as Retribution Body uses custom subwoofers and modular synthesizers to auralize the architecture of performance spaces though dense fields of standing waves, crafting work that is simultaneously minimalist and overwhelming.

Retribution Body
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Getting started at Retribution Body #harvard; there’s like 20 people here, he’s talking about humble beginnings doing zen and synths in the late 90s early 00ze
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This was a fascinating tour of what one can do with 10Hz-30Hz sound - a couple interesting links from the talk: Rhythm becomes pitch, demonstrating that if you start with a polyrhythm and tweak the frequency, you get something else - one can vary amplitude and time on air pressure - that gets you sound, and all other words that describe sound are variations on those concepts.
https://youtu.be/P3hdTbtLra4
Perfect 5th - Rhythm Becomes Pitch

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Room mode calculator, free, from amcoustics - input your room dimensions to determine audio sweet spots. Free!
https://amcoustics.com/tools/amroc #audio #acoustics
amroc - THE Room Mode Calculator

HTML5 room mode calculator. Read and hear the tune of axial, tangential and oblique modes. Scientific sources included.

amcoustics
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#JohnCage interview excerpt:
"When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships. But when I hear the sound of traffic, here on 6th avenue for instance, I don't have the feeling that anyone is talking. I have the feeling that sound is acting. And I love the activity of sound. And it gets louder and quieter, higher and lower, longer and shorter... it does all these things. I'm completely satisfied with that. I don't need sound to talk to me."
https://unspokencinema.blogspot.com/2010/09/sound-is-just-sound-john-cage.html?m=1
Sound is just sound (John Cage)

"When I hear what we call music, it seems to me that someone is talking. And talking about his feelings, or about his ideas of relationships...