November 23rd, 2007
10:45 pm
Archive for November, 2007
Religion by Germany, Japan, and Venezuela
The combination of:
- El Rey 74.5% chocolate, with
- Japanese Sencha Green Tea, listening to
- Ton Koopman perform Bach’s BWV 542 (Great G minor prelude and fugue)
is a warmly moving, almost religious, experience. The floral notes in the chocolate are mimicked in the tea; the chocolate complex, the tea, cleansing and warm, the music a texture denoting luxury and height. Religious? Well, what entity created all of these great things that so well seem to fit together?
Double Pitch
Tonight while driving home from dinner, I discovered that my favorite jazz CD was out of tune. The trombone and sax players were not at the same pitch center. How could this be? Was it my stereo?
No, it was my ears! With sinus stuffiness, my right and left ear interpreted the music at different pitches. Turning the stereo off, and singing high-pitches, I heard “two” people, many cents apart in pitch.
This has never happened to me before and I hope it goes away soon.
