#pianodrop

Regardless of weight an object in freefall will accelerate at 9.8 meters per second, Baker House is 6 stories tall which would be approximately 18.3 meters. Assuming minimal air resistance a piano launched from the roof of Baker House should take about 1.93 seconds to reach the ground. #PianoDrop #igersboston #physics (at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972 Nothing like a warm bath of fuzzy noise after a long day of work. This is one of my favourite Hecker albums which is saying something. I love Heckers ability to harness white noise and warp it into a weird foggy blanket. I saw an interview with him once where he discussed fog. He seems to have quite the fixation with it and it comes across in his music. In that same interview he mentioned that he has a PhD. And his research was on megaphonics (really loud noises). There is, unsurprisingly a chapter on foghorns. Speaking of which, I did my MA at a nearby school and my professor once told me to get in touch with another professor who turned out to be Heckers supervisor. Unfortunately I didn't get to meet him when I was in Montreal but there's my six (three) degrees to Tim Hecker. Some other facts about this album. Ben Frost plays on and engineered this album. The photo on the front comes from the MIT "piano drop." A yearly tradition one of the residences has where they drop a piano from the roof (there's some great videos on YouTube of this) . . . . . #TimHecker #ravedeath1972 #Kranky #Krankyrecords #pianodrop #BenFrost #vinyl #records #nowplaying #nowspinning #Thelinernotes #albumart #vinyligclub #recordcollector #vinylgeek #recordcollection #vinyladdiction #albumart #vinylcollectionpost #records_feature

#tbt A tradition since 1972, MIT's #PianoDrop officially marks the date when students are allowed to "drop" a #Spring Semester class from their busy schedules, and it's a fun thing to do. A large non-working piano is dropped from the roof of Baker House to a cordoned off section of lawn below. (at Baker House)

This way to #PianoDrop (at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT))