JETLAG ARCHIPELAGO #24 for Reboot.fm :: The Wonderful World of Tomorrow
” … Then there were other points of dissimilarity between a meteor and the green fireballs. The trajectory of the fireballs was too flat. Dr. La Paz explained that a meteor doesn’t necessarily have to arch down across the sky, its trajectory can appear to be flat, but not as flat as that of the green fireballs. Then there was the size. Almost always such descriptive words as ‘terrifying,’ ‘as big as the moon,’ and ‘blinding’ had been used to describe the fireballs. Meteors just aren’t this big and bright.
No—Dr. La Paz didn’t think they were meteors.
Dr. La Paz didn’t believe they were meteorites either.
A meteorite is accompanied by sound and shock waves that break windows and stampede cattle. Yet in every case of a green fireball sighting the observers reported they did not hear any sound.
But the biggest mystery of all was the fact that no particles of a green fireball had ever been found. If they were meteorites, Dr. La Paz was positive that he would have found one. He’d missed very few times in the cases of known meteorites. He pulled a map out of his file to show me what he meant. It was a map that he had used to plot the spot where a meteorite had hit the earth. I believe it was in Kansas. The map had been prepared from information he had obtained from dozens of people who had seen the meteorite come flaming toward the earth. At each spot where an observer was standing he’d drawn in the observer’s line of sight to the meteorite. From the dozens of observers he had obtained dozens of lines of sight. The lines all converged to give Dr. La Paz a plot of the meteorite’s downward trajectory. Then he had been able to plot the spot where it had struck the earth. He and his crew went to the marked area, probed the ground with long steel poles, and found the meteorite.”
—Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of the United States Air Force Project Blue Book, the Report on UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS, 1956
Featuring :
Habesha 2000 (Staring into the Sun compilation, Sublime Frequencies, 2011)
Estonian Folk Music (Musical Art of the Peoples of the USSR Anthology, 1986)
On the marsh in the early morning (Singing Air of Estonia, 1989)
Brněský rozhlasový orchestr lidových nástrojů (Czechoslovakia, 1976)
Wakar Uwa Mugu (Extreme Music from Africa compilation, 1997)
Tutampiga (Extreme Music from Africa compilation, 1997)
Naše pjesme (Music from Gabela, Hercegovina, Yugoslavia, 1957-1974)
Bene Gesserit (Turkish Delight compilation, Netherlands, 1983)
Hafler Trio (All that Rises Must Converge, 1993)
Circassian melodies (Traditional World Musics/Musical Atlas, Abkhazia)
Vivenza (L’Enfer Est Intime, 1985)
RNA Organism (R.N.A.O Meets P.O.P.O, Japan, 1980)
Gülcan Opel (Yaz Dostum, Turkey, 1987)
(Broadcast on Feb. 24th, 2013)
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![Jetlag Archipelago # 20 for Reboot: Systems of Transformations
“Now on the theoretical as well as practical plane, the existence of differentiating features is of much greater importance than their content. Once in evidence, they form a system which can be employed as a grid is used to decipher a text, whose original unintelligibility gives it the appearance of an uninterrupted flow. The grid makes it possible to introduce divisions and contrasts, in other words the formal conditions necessary for a significant message to be conveyed. […] The logical principal is always to be able to oppose terms which previous impoverishment of the empirical totality, provided it has been impoverished, allows one to conceive as distinct. How to oppose is an important but secondary consideration in relation to this first requirement. In other words, the operative value of the systems of naming and classifying commonly called totemic derives from their formal character: they are codes suitable for conveying messages which can be transposed into other codes, and for expressing messages received by means of different codes in terms of their own system. ” — “The Savage Mind,” Claude Levi-Strauss
Featuring found sounds from Estonia, Bulgaria, Mali, Anarctica, New Mexico and Israel
Broadcast on August 19, 2012
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