Corona Diary Week 9 Distance Learning

Recommendation requests are coming in! I'm happy to write them for you. Good recommendation etiquette is to ask first before putting it in Naviance.

One of the things I wanted to do with you is show the the ingredients of musical instruments and show you how you could build your own from scratch.

This assignment is optional. If you are happy with your grade there is no need to do it. On the other hand, if you do this assignment I will go back and retroactively make one of your weeks a DU/WOW week.

Your assignment is to build a musical instrument out of household materials, and to answer questions about it. A simple google search for homemade instruments will turn up lots and lots of ideas.

Record a video of you playing the instrument and answering these four questions:

All musical instruments begin with a random vibration. Which is it with your instrument? Plucking, hitting, or blowing are typical.
All musical instruments have something to hold the sound waves. What is it with your instrument? Strings, a tube of air, or a stretched membrane (drum head) are typical.
All musical instruments have a body to resonate with the waves. The size and mass of the body determine whether it will resonate with high pitches, medium pitches or low pitches. Which category does your instrument fall under? Typical high pitched instruments are small-bodied like flutes and ukuleles. Typical low pitched instruments are large and/or massive like tubas and bass violins.
All musical instruments have to have a way to adjust pitch to make different notes. How is it done on your instrument? Typical ways are shortening or lengthening the string by putting a finger down or lifting it, tightening or loosening the string, shortening or lengthening the tube of air by opening holes or closing them.

Photoshopping is rife in fashion magazines and advertising. But every once in a while there's a goof. Some are more obvious than others. Here are the answers.
	Although the umbrella has a reflection, the person does not.
	Whose hand is on her arm???
	Count the fingers!
	Another body-less hand on her shoulder.
	Someone must have re-used the ad for the 4GB card, but forgot to change the reflection.
	Legs don't connect to body?
	Miraculous gravity-defying water.
	If you can't get real diversity, photoshop it!
	If you were a church official, it might not look good to have a very expensive watch. The watch was photoshopped out, but not its reflection.
	No hind legs?
	Three armed man??
	This caused much embarrassment for the University of Wisconsin. On their undergraduate application someone had the bright idea to photoshop in an African American in the sea of white faces. Nothing says lack of diversity like the fact that you had to photoshop it!

THE PLAYLIST

Corona Week 9 Playlist One exception (see below).

Song	Artist	Year	Comments
Behind Blue Eyes	The Who	1971
All Day Music	War	1971	Another great summer relaxing song
She's My Girl	The Turtles	1967
How Soon Is Now	The Smiths	1984
Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)	Eurythmics	1983
Life's a Long Song	Jethro Tull	1971
I Was Made To Love Her	Stevie Wonder	1967
Man On The Moon	R.E.M.	1992
Ana Ng	They Might Be Giants	1989	Fascinating thought.
Good Lovin'	The Rascals	1966
Our Man In Havana	Roger Eno & Kate St. John	1992	Ah, the old sound of a typewriter.
Peaches En Regalia	Frank Zappa	1969	Frank is one of my heroes.
May You Never	John Martyn	1973
I'll Supply The Love	Toto	1979
Tsakve	Abdullah Ibrahim	1979	Can't find a good version on Spotify. Here it is on youtube.
The Time Warp	Rocky Horror Picture Show Cast	1975
Where Have I Known You Before?	Chick Corea	1985
Sunglasses At Night	Cory Hart	1984
Come On Let's Go	Broadcast	2000
Marrakesh Express	Crosby, Stills & Nash	1969
London	Noonday Underground	2001
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Devo	1977	Love this version of the Rolling Stones song.
I Will Survive	Gloria Gaynor	1979
Where The Streets Have No Name	U2	1987
Waterloo Sunset	The Kinks	1967	Such a pleasant song.
True Faith	New Order	1987
Venus	Shocking Blue	1969
1999	Prince	1982
Magic Bus	The Who	1968
Fly	Ilhan Ersahin	2004	Another song from that Sahara Lounge CD I found in the Borders Bookstore in Bryn Mawr all those years ago.
Over The Hills And Far Away	Led Zeppelin	1973	Led Zeppelin is quintessential summer music.
Y.M.C.A.	The Village People	1978
Is This Love	Bob Marley	1978
Come Sail Away	Styx	1978
Automatic	The Pointer Sisters	1983	I thought for years that this was sung by men. That'll teach me to make gender assumptions.
Should I Stay Or Should I Go	The Clash	1982	I think it might be time to go, actually.
Fall On Me	R.E.M.	1986	Feathers hit the ground Before the weight Can leave the air Interesting physics!
Sweet Talkin' Woman	Electric Light Orchestra	1977
Heroes	David Bowie	1977
Tenderness	General Public	1984	Some of the members of English Beat went on to form General Public.
Stay (Faraway, So Close!)	U2	1993
The Song Remains The Same	Led Zeppelin	1973
Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)	The Four Tops	1966
Sister Golden Hair	America	1975	I'm just learning this song on guitar right now!
Count On Me	Jefferson Starship	1977
China Girl	David Bowie	1983
Another Nail for My Heart	Squeeze	1980
Going to California	Led Zeppelin	1971	Beautiful song.
Don't Be Shy	Cat Stevens	1971	Good advice. This song is from the very quirky but great movie Harold and Maude.
The Rain Song	Led Zeppelin	1973
Jessica	The Allman Brothers Band	1973	More summer music!
Summer	War	1976	And more!
In the Summertime	Mungo Jerry	1970
Let It Rain	Eric Clapton	1970
Last Good Day Of The Year	Cousteau	2001
Melissa	The Allman Brothers Band	1972
Wild Horses	The Rolling Stones	1971	I think this is the most beautiful Rolling Stones song.
Changes	Black Sabbath	1977
D'Yer Mak'er	Led Zeppelin	1973
Grazing In the Grass	Hugh Masekela	1968
Redemption Song	Bob Marley	1980
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye	Steam	1969
Carry On Wayward Son	Kansas	1976
Don't Change	INXS	1982	I always thought this would make a great prom theme.
Schools out	Alice Cooper	1972	Too true!
What A Wonderful World	Louis Armstrong	1967	It is a wonderful world. Never lose hope. Never lose your optimism. In the words of W.E.B DuBois: One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to lose belief in this truth simply because the great end comes slowly, because time is long. Last message (written 26 June, 1957) read at his funeral, 1963.