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Dial & Sono
Thursday, July 21st, 2022 02:15 amSo, back in the June 19th entry I talk about how Dial was invented out of the necessity to present random content that was neither thunder, nor crickets... nor test recordings.
But after, Spriritual War & Party Zone, I didn't upload any new Dials until yesterday, when I uploaded four.
And I woke up today thinking, well... this kind of defines what a Dial is. It's either something weird, or it's a snapshot of something significant, or it's an ambiance.
So, SW&PZ is weird... Distress in the Distance, and First Crickets, are snapshots of significant moments... and Explosion Day, and Sundown 1, are abmiances.
In sound effects parlance, ambiance is short for, background ambiance... which is self explanatory.
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So, Dial is off the ground as an umbrella for those three types of recordings, but I have been thinking about actual sound effects, lately, as well... back to basics, you know? Light switch, foot steps, toilet flush, car start, that kind of stuff.
And I thought, if I do start creating that type of content, it shouldn't be lumped under the heading of Dial.
So today I played with the idea of a new rubric for basic sound effect content, and came up with, Sono...
But I liked the final design so much, I had to go back and re-work the template for Dial to match Sono...
Both have that Public Library feel to the design, but Sono is red, with a speaker, and Dial is green, with a telephone dial! And both contrast very much with the old, blue, cricket & thunder content.
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Because Sonos will be just sound effects, there's no need to date them. They'll just be numbered in the order they're recorded... for the rest of history.
But Dials have that old school, seven digit, local phone number designation, I thought was so clever!..
I wrote about how the prefix is just, X22 for 2022, and will be, X33 for 2023, etc. And the last four digits are just the month and day... like, 0721, for July 21st.
But it only struck me today that I'm kinda screwed if I record more than nine Dials in a year!.. What prefix comes after 922?
Should it be 022? What comes after that? What's the 11th Dial of 2022 supposed to be?
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I had to think long and hard, because the old telephone dial does have letters, but you can't just use them willy nilly!
For example, I first thought, I'll just follow 9 with J, because J is the tenth letter of the alphabet. Thus, J through Z will simply be single-digit representations of the values, 10 through 26!
The 10th Dial of 2022 would be J22. The 26th Dial of 2022 would be Z22. Easy! Just don't record more than 26 dials a year, right?
But Then I thought... no!.. that's not right, because IN telephone dial nomenclature, the letters do not correspond to the numbers that way!
Each number on the dial has three letters... and like, one has four of them... or something like that?
Okay, fine!.. so, 09 is 9. 10 is 0. 11 is 1. And on the dial, one is ABC! So 1122 is simply A22! Brilliant!
1222 is 222. Number two on the dial is, DEF. So 1222 is D22!
11=A, 12=D, 13=G, 14=J, 15=M, 16=P...
Wait!..
WAIT A MINUTE, GOD DAMMIT!!!
NO!.. it turns out that on the telephone dial, the number one, HAS NO LETTERS!
It's the number TWO, on the dial, that is ABC!
Three, is DEF!
Four is GHI!
To make matters worse, zero also has no letters, and there is no Q, and no Z!
NO Z!
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This realization really hurt me!.. I felt like I might have to just resort to using star and pound for one and zero!
After 922, it would be #22, and then *22, before A22.
But it's called, DIAL, and telephone dials did not have star and pound! Star and pound were only added with the advent of push-button telephones!.. and you could never use them to dial a prefix like that anyway!
So, in the last, I had to let go of the idea that I could continue after 9, with a sequence of single characters which could be seamlessly decoded into the values of 10, and 11... and also stay true to the analog dial nomenclature.
Thus, numbers like 10 & 11, 20 & 21, 30 & 31, cannot be encoded!
How it has to be, is that after 922, it has to simply go to A22, even though A22 decodes to 222, which expands to 1222.
A22 will not be the 12th track of 2022. It will only be the 10th track. But A22 is still greater than 922. So it is, the next greater than nine, if that makes sense.
The total number of prefixes that can be used... adhering to this weird formula... is thirty three. So... I can record as many as thirty-three dials in a single year.
Their sequence, is as thus;
122,222,322,422,522,622,722,822,922,
A22,D22,G22,J22,M22,P22,T22,W22,
B22,E22,H22,K22,N22,R22,U22,X22,
C22,F22,I22,L22,O22,S22,V22,Y22.
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And that's pretty crazy!.. and you might say it still doesn't work, because, for example; A22, B22, and C22 are all really just 222 if dialed on a phone! I'm just recycling the same prefixes over and over!
Well... that's okay, because the final four will always be different!
Each track ends up with a unique seven-digit number!
And with that... I think I'm gonna lose my mind, but I'm sticking with it!
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The last thing I did tonight was create a splash graphic for the Dial playlist, which I'm calling the Phono Book! Haha!..
And you can see that graphic in the embed of the playlist below!
Talk to you soon!
°¦}
But after, Spriritual War & Party Zone, I didn't upload any new Dials until yesterday, when I uploaded four.
And I woke up today thinking, well... this kind of defines what a Dial is. It's either something weird, or it's a snapshot of something significant, or it's an ambiance.
So, SW&PZ is weird... Distress in the Distance, and First Crickets, are snapshots of significant moments... and Explosion Day, and Sundown 1, are abmiances.
In sound effects parlance, ambiance is short for, background ambiance... which is self explanatory.
So, Dial is off the ground as an umbrella for those three types of recordings, but I have been thinking about actual sound effects, lately, as well... back to basics, you know? Light switch, foot steps, toilet flush, car start, that kind of stuff.
And I thought, if I do start creating that type of content, it shouldn't be lumped under the heading of Dial.
So today I played with the idea of a new rubric for basic sound effect content, and came up with, Sono...
But I liked the final design so much, I had to go back and re-work the template for Dial to match Sono...
Both have that Public Library feel to the design, but Sono is red, with a speaker, and Dial is green, with a telephone dial! And both contrast very much with the old, blue, cricket & thunder content.
Because Sonos will be just sound effects, there's no need to date them. They'll just be numbered in the order they're recorded... for the rest of history.
But Dials have that old school, seven digit, local phone number designation, I thought was so clever!..
I wrote about how the prefix is just, X22 for 2022, and will be, X33 for 2023, etc. And the last four digits are just the month and day... like, 0721, for July 21st.
But it only struck me today that I'm kinda screwed if I record more than nine Dials in a year!.. What prefix comes after 922?
Should it be 022? What comes after that? What's the 11th Dial of 2022 supposed to be?
I had to think long and hard, because the old telephone dial does have letters, but you can't just use them willy nilly!
For example, I first thought, I'll just follow 9 with J, because J is the tenth letter of the alphabet. Thus, J through Z will simply be single-digit representations of the values, 10 through 26!
The 10th Dial of 2022 would be J22. The 26th Dial of 2022 would be Z22. Easy! Just don't record more than 26 dials a year, right?
But Then I thought... no!.. that's not right, because IN telephone dial nomenclature, the letters do not correspond to the numbers that way!
Each number on the dial has three letters... and like, one has four of them... or something like that?
Okay, fine!.. so, 09 is 9. 10 is 0. 11 is 1. And on the dial, one is ABC! So 1122 is simply A22! Brilliant!
1222 is 222. Number two on the dial is, DEF. So 1222 is D22!
11=A, 12=D, 13=G, 14=J, 15=M, 16=P...
Wait!..
WAIT A MINUTE, GOD DAMMIT!!!
NO!.. it turns out that on the telephone dial, the number one, HAS NO LETTERS!
It's the number TWO, on the dial, that is ABC!
Three, is DEF!
Four is GHI!
To make matters worse, zero also has no letters, and there is no Q, and no Z!
NO Z!
This realization really hurt me!.. I felt like I might have to just resort to using star and pound for one and zero!
After 922, it would be #22, and then *22, before A22.
But it's called, DIAL, and telephone dials did not have star and pound! Star and pound were only added with the advent of push-button telephones!.. and you could never use them to dial a prefix like that anyway!
So, in the last, I had to let go of the idea that I could continue after 9, with a sequence of single characters which could be seamlessly decoded into the values of 10, and 11... and also stay true to the analog dial nomenclature.
Thus, numbers like 10 & 11, 20 & 21, 30 & 31, cannot be encoded!
How it has to be, is that after 922, it has to simply go to A22, even though A22 decodes to 222, which expands to 1222.
A22 will not be the 12th track of 2022. It will only be the 10th track. But A22 is still greater than 922. So it is, the next greater than nine, if that makes sense.
The total number of prefixes that can be used... adhering to this weird formula... is thirty three. So... I can record as many as thirty-three dials in a single year.
Their sequence, is as thus;
122,222,322,422,522,622,722,822,922,
A22,D22,G22,J22,M22,P22,T22,W22,
B22,E22,H22,K22,N22,R22,U22,X22,
C22,F22,I22,L22,O22,S22,V22,Y22.
And that's pretty crazy!.. and you might say it still doesn't work, because, for example; A22, B22, and C22 are all really just 222 if dialed on a phone! I'm just recycling the same prefixes over and over!
Well... that's okay, because the final four will always be different!
Each track ends up with a unique seven-digit number!
And with that... I think I'm gonna lose my mind, but I'm sticking with it!
The last thing I did tonight was create a splash graphic for the Dial playlist, which I'm calling the Phono Book! Haha!..
And you can see that graphic in the embed of the playlist below!
Talk to you soon!
°¦}
