![]() Hatfield's abundant, amazingly clean dobro mixes surprisingly well with the other style and produces a "hillbilly fugue" in "Prodigal Son." "String Theory" could not sound more different as double-stringed mandolin floats above and flits around a Mozartean accompaniment in "Quirks and Quarks" and becomes not one, but sometimes two voices in the fugue-ish "Sparticles." The first piece, for classical guitar and dobro, is meant as a remembrance of his father, Sam, and his childhood in Virginia. A remarkable feeling of two players playing simultaneously enlivens this music. This means that they were conceived as duets, with the first recorded track providing the accompaniment as the second track was laid down. "The Gospel According to Sam" and "String Theory" are both examples, with different instrumentation, of "real time multitracking" with no overdubbing. The record is arranged as a collection of four suites that each explore different kinds of music for guitar. The liner notes by Hatfield are quite detailed and deserve inspection. The music on String Theory is a snapshot of what Hatfield is currently thinking about musically, as expressed through both compositions and performance. Technically prodigious, he has managed to totally fuse the contrapuntal aspects of classical guitar with the swinging freedom of jazz. ![]() ![]() He emphatically refuses to be pinned down by any label, even an amorphous one like "jazz." He's equally at home in the worlds of classical guitar, Brazilian jazz, the blues and straight-ahead jazz (represented by standards ranging from "Emily" to "Killer Joe"), and he has a playing history in New York City going back at least two decades, but one never knows what to expect from Hatfield's fingers. The music on String Theory fully displays where Hatfield has been in his chronological and musical life. But then what about other universes.Ken Hatfield is an extremely complex and multifaceted individual, a philosopher-king, a musically omnivorous hillbilly—and yes, his last name comes from those Hatfields. If we ever do prove the existence of other dimensions (for example, if we observe matter disappearing (not converting to energy) then we can assume it has left our dimension, we will be much closer to solving the mystery of the universe. Some say they are too small for us to observe. Now for scientists to make this theory check out mathematically, they had to add 7 extra dimensions (for a grand total of ten) and there are lots of theories out there as to what these ten dimensions are. This additional variable accounts for the many property differences of particles. The answer to this question is that the string vibrate at various frequencies. One may ask, "Well if all quarks are made up of tiny vibrating strings, what makes the quarks different?" (As the quarks must obviously be different because there have been dozens of different kinda of particles discovered (you know, alpha, beta, etc)). String theory states that quarks are made up of tiny vibrating strings. String theory escapes this endless loop of going smaller and smaller. The currently used atomic theory has a flaw, you can keep asking "Well what are protons made of? Quarks? Well what are quarks made of?" etc etc. String theory is a newer theory in physics that attempts to explain everything. String theory also includes a bunch of theorys including m-theory, relativity, chaos theory, and a few others that may or may not have been invented by someone who was on LSD at the time (if you've ever seen any Mandelbrot Fractals, you'll know what I mean). On the same scale, a single string would be the size of small tree. To give you an example, imagine an atom of hydrogen was the size of the solar system. Strings are so infitismally small that anyone with an IQ of less that 400 (ie, all humans) is incapable of imagining how small they are. Strings are eleven-dimensional (ten dimensions + time) bits of energy that not only make up the above particles but create forces including gravity, electromagnetism, strong nuclear forces, weak nuclear forces, and a few other forces that have not yet been discovered. ![]() Quarks are actually made of even smaller pieces, called strings. Electrons, protons, and neutrons can be split in half to create quarks. Atoms are made of electrons, protons, and neutrons (very duh). While all of the math behind it is correct, attempting to understand it is like having molten platnium poured on your skull. Quite possibly the wierdest physics theory ever.
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