Buenos Aires and the Music of the MRI machine.
I’m gong to Buenos Aires on Sunday with a friend from London. I’m going to be there for a week, eating and site seeing and stuff, and hopefully catching up with some old amigos.
Curious how the Spanish is going to work out now that the Portuguese has eaten up the space in my brain.
I had an MRI on my knee today (another pinche injury, but I think this one is minor). I had heard a lot of complaints from people about how it is noisy and scary to be put in the machine. Truth be told, it was kind of relaxing. I got to lie down and was inserted into a tube. Then the sounds of the machine were kind of musical. A sort of Philip Glass meets Basement Jaxx. The beats were interesting becasue they were in off time, grinding sounds, whirring sounds, clicking sounds and a timer as well. The sounds would overlap and stacking, creating dissonance, etc.
I am going to look for mp3s of MRI machines, and if there aren’t any, then I should create them. It is an medical-industrial symphony. I think it could work on a let of levels.
June 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am
My gf raved about Buenos Aires after she went there, especially things like a massive high-quality steak for next to nothing, followed by free tango lessons in the middle of the restaurant. Have you been before? I wasn’t too desperate to get back to South America (kidnapping, buses falling off cliffs, general crime fun), although when I say ‘South America’ I’ve only managed Ecuador and Chile, but Buenos Aires did sound pretty good. Also will probably get more excited once I go through my huge Mysterious Cities of Gold box set.
June 14th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Can, I´ve never been to BA before, but it is great! I´ve really enjoyed visiting here and hope to come back to Argentina soon. If you have sterling here it is reallky cheap and not too bad with dollars. But the dollar decline all over the world has been pretty dramatic.
There aren´t buses falling off cliffs here. It is more like Manahattan.