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Yesterday I had the amazing opportunity to get a tour of Walt Disney's Apartment in Disneyland. It was actually super emotional for me, but totally awesome at the same time. Also, Lillian Disney & I have the same floral aesthetic 🌹✨♥️ #castmemberperks (at Walt Disneys Apartment)

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Steven Universe, 1976. The only thing that keeps me from making a full video of this is the need of a properly funky arrangement of the theme song. More retro-fitted shows filed under my “title art” tag. (Also on Ko-fi, Patreon and Instagram! Links in blog.)

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[1920′s gangster voice] every single one’a you’s…… every single one’a you’s is valid…….

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t’anks boss

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Electron microscope video of a needle on a vinyl record.

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H O W

like you can tell me all you want how the sound is stored in the grooves but fucking H O W

HOW DOES THAT GET INTO THE NEEDLE

HOW ARE THE VIBRATIONS TURNED INTO MUSIC THAT YOU CAN HEAR???

H O W

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The vibrations aren’t “turned into” music, they are music. When vibrations occur inside your inner ear, your brain processes this as sound.

The grooves in a record are an analogy for these vibrations, a method of remembering them so that they can be recreated later on.

Put your hand on a speaker while loud music is playing and you’ll feel the vibrations. Those are exactly the same vibrations happening inside your ear when you hear the music.

But how do you capture that?

Take a surface that vibrates strongly when a sound is played, like the skin of a drumhead for example. Connect that surface to a little tool - when sound causes the surface to vibrate, the tool digs a little bit into some wax, leaving behind a pattern that matches - in proportion - the vibrations of the surface caused by the sound. This is your analogy (hence: analog music).

Now, when there’s no sound playing, you run that little tool back over the pattern. This causes the skin to vibrate again, this time in response to the tool running over the pattern instead of because of an external sound. The vibrations should match, proportionally, the original vibrations of the music.. and thus these new vibrations, if you were to amplify them, would be a recreation or “recording” of the original music.

That’s oversimplified of course and things have changed a lot since the days of wax, but that is very basically how the process of recording music worked at first, and the general idea of how sound gets from a groove in a record into your brain.