LL :: Volume 38 :: LR

(A higher-end model detects sudden kinetic shocks, as when you snap or whap fingers, and uses them to trigger chimes or percussive sounds.)

As with whistling, the basic sound is simple and untuned. You need a bit of practice to create music, or any well-controlled sound. Once you get used to it, however, you can become quite deft -- again, like whistling. Except that since the mouth isn't involved, you can sing along. Or use the sound to underline, accompany, and emphasize your conversations.

Note that six Districts have enacted general interest-petitions to the effect that Thereminics constitute a cumulative auditory nuisance. Whether you live in those areas or not, it might be a good idea to switch them to Net output rather than actual sound. Let them as wants to listen, listen.

Everyone else will still have to watch your twiddling fingers, of course.

The phenomenon makes for a lovely spacious feeling, for people strolling the Twentieth. On the other hand, if you want to know what buildings are across the street, you have to walk out into the street to look. And the park is uninhabited. Not just uninhabited by real people, which is natural, but empty even of illusory people. Assuming the park itself is illusory. Which is not clear at all.

Several groups are trying to gain entry, by various means. Walking backwards across the street seems to be the best bet at the moment. Nobody doubts that it is possible; the effect is too well-designed to be merely superficial.

Beard owners are assured that their beards will be allowed to return home within three days.

A crowd of people walking down such a street produces a gentle, pleasant burble of notes. And many are quite happy with that; but it is not the true point.

If you know the pattern for a street, and you hit all the right notes, you can generate an actual melody. A group of people walking together, in parallel, can bring forth full polyphonic music. Naturally, the correct patterns are closely held secrets of the interest gangs that lay them out. A group moving on its own turf moves in harmony; outsiders cannot escape discord.

Since a usable pattern should not involve too much weaving and jumping around, it is possible to deduce a street's melody for yourself. This has become a popular hobby among musicians and topologists. But, on the other hand, some streets have no assonant pattern; any combination of tiles you can reach is discordant. In such areas, you know the interest-members by their silence.

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