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POPSThe Physics of Coltrane's Technique Anyone who has had the pleasure of watching a world class sax player up close knows that he/she is silently singing into that ax. Coltrane was a genius at it; science can now prove that.
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POPSSongs of the Humpback Whale,Columbia Records, 1970, As an artefact, the album tells us as much about sensibilities of the era as it does about whales themselves. Payne had opened up an undersea world previously restricted to marine biologists; an eerie submarine space of basso profondo groans and solitary, echoing moans which could not but resonate with listeners buffeted by the socio-political shocks of the late 1960s. Audiences were fascinated to learn that only male humpback whales sing, that they can sing continuously for more than 24 hours, that whales have no vocal chords and generate sound by forcing air through their massive nasal cavities, and that different herds in various parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans produce distinct songs, which change over a number of years never to return to the same sequence of notes.
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