c.wright -highfreq. preaching

chuck dinkins - impact vehicle

james blish - subfreq. vibration

"What's wrong doctor?"
"My memory, I think. We will have to photograph the waveform. It will be too complex to analyze here."
"How do you know?"
"By that radio tone. You Americans work by sight. There are almost no resonance electronics men in this country. But in Germany we worked as much by ear as by eye. Where you convert a wave into a visible pattern, we turned it into an audible one. We had a saying that resonance engineers were disappointed musicians."

The face of the tube suddenly produced a green wiggle. It was the kind of a wiggle a crazy man might make. The technician looked at it in dismay.

"That... doesn't exist. I won't work in a science where it could exist!"

...to commemorate the simultaneous 50th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's famous encounter, Chuck Dinkins gathers together hundreds of classic sounds and sighs from the first wave of hysteria. A chilling and thrilling collection of the fun, cool, and sometimes quirky sounds that defined the incredible Golden Age. Dinkins tells volumes about the sytlish craftsmanship of the 50's and the quirks of Cold War America. Showcasing humankinds wildest dreams and deepest fears - transcendent encounters, kinky abductions, hair rasing first hand accounts - he is a return to a time when America was simultaneously more innocent and more paranoid!

...author of Hugo Award winning A Case of Bass Complications, selects groups of songs about futures that may be just around the corner. With customary, but still astonishing attention to ingenious detail, Blsih leads one through a series of lively and entertaining sets which could become fact - as indeed have so many songs which, not so long ago, were considered wild flights of imagination.

Most of the world doesn't pretend to understand the technological developments of the past twenty or thirty years. And it is with effects that James Blish is most concerned, the immediate, urgent and often very personal results involved for people who can't tell a fission from a fusion, but who still know a good band when they hear one.