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But it really became like one of those movies that has too many stars and not enough substance. Add to that the idea of a gigantic marionette and an electric accordion player and the possibilities are just endless. Here was a night with Kronos, an unbelievably talented and discerning group of musicians, playing on a work by Amon Tobin – an exciting musician/producer/mixologist in his own right. When I read the bill on BAM’s email newsletter, I became way too excited.

While the accordion player was fun to watch and a clearly talented accordion player, the composition was completely without merit and sounded like many things they’ve already recorded. The musical mastery of Kronos, the musical technology available today and the interesting sounds of an accordion could spell a magical combination. The piece was composed in 2004 and only 3 short years later, felt extremely dated. The final piece, “Uniko”, on the other hand, was probably the worst. I loved the puppets though and thought this was the best piece of the evening. However, the story lines were weak and the music was bland. The puppets as sculptures had been executed very well. I’d rather have heard them actually play the string pieces from the composition and just let other random musicians come in and do the samples that aren’t from the stringed instruments. But this was dull and made me think of the music scene from “Revenge of the Nerds”. I’m not opposed to remixing or sampling as musical expression. I’m not opposed to repackaging your repertoire. Not really so innovative even in their choice of instruments. So instead of just mashing up a bunch of samples and then playing the recorded mash up, the played the individual samples on these StringScan instruments. My assumption was wrong and the instruments were samplers. At first I thought the instruments were props in a powerful display of laziness. They played the piece on StringScan instruments outfitted with infrared sensors. To be fair, the first piece, “Shuffle 25 / Bloodstone – Remix 1 (2007)”, was actually a remix of some of their performances at BAM over the last 25 years. Had I not known that from the program, I would have sworn the entire evening was a retrospective of Kronos’ work. Tonight’s performance at BAM contained two world premieres and one US premiere.

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Imaging flaw detectors provide color and manual or automated scanning ability to generate comprehensible, full-field, C-scan images of the material, reducing inspection time dramatically.What is the next wave for music? Is it a dishonest repetition of a sonic landscape from 20 years ago an overtly melodramatic love story or simply adding an oft forgotten instrument to the ensemble? For Kronos Quartet and BAM, it’s all three.

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Modern portable flaw detectors interpret the distinctive sound echoes given off by the anomalies.

The depth of penetration is superior to other methods.

Access is only required from one side for pulse-echo mode.

The most common anomalies detected include cracks, voids and porosity in metals, ceramics and plastics in addition to delaminations and disbonds in composites.Īdvantages of ultrasonic testing include: The high frequency sound behaves predictably when interacting with surfaces and internal defects.įlaw detection can be applied in almost any industry from composites and metals used in aerospace, to petrochemical oil and gas pipelines and storage tanks, to power generation including nuclear power. One of the most common techniques to identify defects is ultrasonic inspection where sound waves, propagated through the material, are used to identify such anomalies. Flaw detection is the process of identifying and sizing sub-surface defects in materials.

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