Mark Hurst

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Or would the experience be so different that it's, the analogy breaks down?

down?And that's, that's why this instrument which, which as you said, Mark, on the face of it is just kind of silly, is actually also super interesting because it, it's predicated on this idea of, of analogical relationships between the senses.

The idea that you, you could have perhaps an art form that orchestrates odors the way that music orchestrates tone colors and pitch relationships.

The instrument itself is kind of proposing that possibility for us to consider.

There's a, let's say, AI-positive perspective that would say, "Well, you know, who needs imaginary instruments anymore? We, we can now crank out any music that we can prompt." It's a kind of, uh, utopia of sorts.

Um, I think we, we tend to see it differently.

I've come to see part of the value of the book, and you touched on this earlier, Mark, that, that it is really more about the imagination than about the instruments, or it, it's about both.

But the instruments are all products of the human imagination in its unaugmented grandeur.

Hi, everyone.

This is Don Fleming filling in for Mark Hurst on Tectonic.

Tonight, I'm going to talk about frequencies, from intimidation and scandals in the early days of radio, military takeovers, radio jamming and coded messages, and psych-ops operations gone awry.

The two guys who attacked Dan Rather seemed to believe that television broadcast frequencies were being broadcast into their brains.

In 1942, the U.S. Navy came in and took over the station, and it became a secret listening post in which they intercepted messages between German headquarters and the U-boats, the submarines, in the North Atlantic.

Welcome back to Tectonic.

This is Don Fleming filling in for Mark Hurst.

Over the summer, I was in Cape Cod and visited the Marconi RCA Wireless Museum in Chatham.