Thought of the day

Man can change everything. But what that does not change is the habbit of man, to change everything.

Oh, what for a voice do I have?

Well, I can sing down to the bass E and up to g’ like a normal bass voice. With falsetto I can sing up to one octave higher, to g” (g” of the alto and soprano). So what for a voice do I have?

Tagesgedanke

Ich bin der Tod. Ich komme und bringe die betrübten und selbstbetrübten Seelen mit.

What do we hear when we hear music with some parts?

The most music that we hear is music with some parts (the so-called polyphonic music). Among the parts, the easiest to hear is the descant part. Then the bass part. The middle voices (the tenor and the alto) are not easy to distinguish from each other. If there is only one middle voice, one can however hear it without big difficulty. With 5 voices or more, it is more difficult to point out each voice. With different instruments and sung voices which have different sounds, it will be possible to hear each voices. For example, in a piece for recorder, violin, viol and a sung voice, one can hear each part very clearly. Rather than as in a piece for 4 recorders, 5 viols, a string quartet (2 violins, viola and cello) or a piece with 5 parts played on a keyboard.

That is the difference between heterogenous sounds and homogenous sounds. Now the question is what we listen to when we listen to music with homogenous voices. Maybe just a cluster of sounds.

Train arrival and departure in Zurich and Bern

As common in the other railway networks, trains run periodically. For a simple change between trains, trains are scheduled in a concept borrowed from the music, the concept of metre (German: Takt). The main stations of Zurich and Bern are typical muster of this concept. There are two climaxes a hour, one at full hour, the other at half hour. Main line trains arrive at the stations short before and leave them short after so that the passenger can change between the trains. Since there are many trains arriving and leaving in these climaxes, they go after each other in short time distance (some minutes).

In Zurich:

• Full hour arrivals
  1. From West
     • xx:51 IR from Basel through Brugg AG, stops at Zurich Altstetten and Zurich Oerlikon without Zurich main station and goes to Zurich Airport (arrival time in Zurich Oerlikon)
     • xx:52 IR from Basel through Lenzburg
     • xx:54 IR from Bern through Brugg AG
     • xx:56 ICN from Biel
     • xx:58 IC from Bern
     • xx:00 IC from Basel
     • xx:02 IR from Bern through Burgdorf (the late-comer)
  2. From North and East
     • xx:48 IR from Schaffhausen
     • xx:51 IC from Romanshorn
     • xx:53 ICN from St. Gallen
     • xx:59 IR from Zurich Airport
  3. From South
     • xx:47 IR from Chur
     • xx:51 IC/IR from Bellinzona
     • xx:56 IR from Lucerne
• Full hour departures
  1. To West
     • xx:58 IR to Bern through Burgdorf
     • xx:00 IC to Bern
     • xx:02 IC to Basel
     • xx:04 ICN to Biel
     • xx:06 IR to Bern through Brugg AG
     • xx:08 IR to Basel through Lenzburg
     • xx:09 IR to Basel through Brugg AG from Zurich Airport, stops at Zurich Oerlikon, Zurich Altstetten without Zurich main station (departure time at Zurich Oerlikon).
  2. To North and East
     • xx:01 IR to Zurich Airport
     • xx:07 IC to Romanshorn
     • xx:09 ICN to St. Gallen
     • xx:12 IR to Schaffhausen
  3. To South
     • xx:04 IR to Lucerne
     • xx:09 IC/IR to Bellinzona
     • xx:12 IR to Chur
• Half hour arrivals
  1. From West
     • xx:22 RE from Aarau through Lenzburg
     • xx:24 IR from Basel through Brugg AG
     • xx:26 IC from Basel
     • xx:28 IC from Bern
     • xx:30 IR from Biel
  2. From North and East
     • xx:21 IR from Constance
     • xx:23 IC from St. Gallen
  3. From South
     • xx:23 IC from Chur
     • xx:25 IR from Lucerne
• Half hour departures
  1. To West
     • xx:30 IR to Biel
     • xx:32 IC to Bern
     • xx:34 IC to Basel
     • xx:36 IR to Basel through Brugg AG
     • xx:38 RE to Aarau through Lenzburg
  2. To North and East
     • xx:37 IR to Constance
     • xx:39 IC to St. Gallen
  3. To South
     • xx:35 IR to Lucerne
     • xx:37 IC to Chur

In Bern:

• Full hour arrivals
  1. From North and East
     • xx:48 IR from Biel
     • xx:53 IR from Olten through Burgdorf
     • xx:56 IC from Basel
     • xx:57 IC from Zurich
     • xx:00 IR from Lucerne
  2. From South
     • xx:52 IC from Interlaken
     • xx:54 IC from Brig
  3. From West
     • xx:56 IR from Geneva through Lausanne and Fribourg
• Full hour departures
  1. To North and East
     • xx:00 IR to Lucerne
     • xx:02 IC to Zurich
     • xx:04 IC to Basel
     • xx:07 IR to Olten through Burgdorf
     • xx:12 IR to Biel
  2. To South
     • xx:04 IC to Interlaken
     • xx:07 IC to Brig
  3. To West
     • xx:04 IR to Geneva through Fribourg and Lausanne
• Half hour arrivals
  1. From North and East
     • xx:18 IR from Biel
     • xx:21 IR from Zurich through Burgdorf
     • xx:25 IR from Zurich through Brugg AG
     • xx:27 IC from Basel
     • xx:29 IC from Zurich
  2. From South
     • xx:23 IC from Interlaken or Brig
     • xx:26 RE from Lucerne through Langnau
  3. From West
     • xx:26 IC from Geneva through Lausanne and Fribourg
• Half hour departures
  1. To North and East
     • xx:32 IC to Zurich
     • xx:34 IC to Basel
     • xx:36 IR to Zurich through Brugg AG
     • xx:38 IR to Zurich through Burgdorf
     • xx:42 IR to Biel
  2. To South
     • xx:35 IC to Interlaken or Brig
     • xx:37 RE to Lucerne through Langnau
  3. To West
     • xx:34 IC to Geneva through Fribourg and Lausanne

Some comments:

• In Zurich at full hours IC from and to Bern go before IC from and to Basel.
• In Zurich at full hours and half hours trains from and to Romanshorn/Constance go before trains from and to St. Gallen.
• In Bern at full hours IC from and to Interlaken go before IC from Brig.
• In Bern at half hours IC from and to Interlaken/Brig go before RE from and to Lucerne.
• Otherwise the order of the arrivals and the order of the departures are symmetric to each other (last in first out).
• When at a particular hour the orders have some exchanges from these, some trains must have had delay.

I hate insects

Well, they fly around people, are dirty, ugly. If they touch someone, they can bite him/her (like mucks or bees) or make an allergy. That is why I do not like them.

However they are animals. Are they really so dangerous so that we have to be scared so much of them?

Thought of the day

What should one do with the urban and suburban suicide?

Train stations in Zurich, Basel and Bern

In Zurich:

• Stations of main train lines and suburban trains:
  • Zurich main station (Zürich HB) which is composed of 4 parts: the station in the main hall for the main train lines (tracks 3-18), the underground station by the Museums Street (tracks 21-24), the station by the Sihl Post Office (tracks 51-54) and the underground SZU station (tracks 1-2) for suburban trains.
  • Zurich Oerlikon: the second most important station in Zurich.
  • Zurich Altstetten: the third most important station in Zurich.
  • Zurich Enge: there are few trains of main lines stop here everyday. A small station.
• Stations of SBB suburban trains:
  • Zurich Hard Bridge (Zürich Hardbrücke)
  • Zurich Wipkingen: also a small station.
  • Zurich Seebach
  • Zurich Affoltern: a small station.
  • Zurich Wiedikon
  • Zurich Wollishofen
  • Zurich Stadelhofen
  • Zurich Tiefenbrunnen
  • Stettbach: on the borderline between Zurich and the neighbour area Stettbach. A small underground station.
• Stations of the SZU suburban trains (a local railway):
  • Zurich Selnau: underground station.
  • Zurich Giesshubel (Zürich Giesshübel): the biggest station of the SZU, with only one 1 track at platform.
  • Zurich Binz: small station on the other side of station Zurich Giesshubel.
  • Zurich Saalsporthalle: small station.
  • Zurich Brunau: small station.
  • Zurich Manegg: a station with only 1 track at platform.
  • Zurich Leimbach: small station.
  • Zurich Friesenberg: small station.
  • Zurich Schweighof: small station.
  • Zurich Triemli: small station.
  • Uitikon-Waldegg: on the borderline between Zurich and the neighbour area Waldegg. A small station.
• Stations of the Forchbahn (S18) on the street together with the trams:
  • Zurich Kreuzplatz (Cross Square)
  • Zurich Hegibachplatz (Hegibach Square)
  • Zurich Balgrist
  • Zurich Rehalp

In Basel:

• Stations of main train lines and suburban trains:
  • Basel SBB (Swiss station): main station for the trains in Switzerland.
  • Basel Badischer Bahnhof (German station): main station for the trains from/to Germany.
  • Basel SNCF (French station): station for the trains from/to France by the side of the SBB station.
• Stations of the suburban trains:
  • Basel St. Johann: formerly a freight station.
  • Basel Dreispitz: a small station.
  • Basel St. Jakob: the station at the stadion St. Jakob of Basel.

In Bern:

• Station of main train lines and suburban trains:
  • Bern main station which is composed of 2 parts: the SBB station for normal-gauged trains and the underground RBS station for narrow-gauged trains.
• Stations of suburban trains:
  • Bern Wankdorf which has 2 parts.
  • Bern Ausserholligen which is in fact 2 stations on the side of each other: one station of the SBB and another of the BLS.
  • Bern Bumpliz South (Bümpliz Süd)
  • Bern Weissenbuhl (Weissenbühl)
  • Bern Stockacker (Bern Stöckacker)
  • Bern Bumpliz North (Bümpliz Nord)
  • Bern Brunnen (Brünnen): a small station.
  • Bern Felsenau: a small underground station of the RBS (narrow-gauged trains).
  • Bern Tiefenau: a small station of the RBS (narrow-gauged trains).

Solo instruments

One can see in this work or that work harpsichord, viola da gamba, violoncello or bassoon as solo instruments. However it is not very nice. The sound of the harpsichord is not loud enough and fading out (as other plucking instruments), so that in an ensemble it is overwhelmed by the sound of the other instruments. The viola da gamba, the violoncello and the bassoon are bass instruments. In solo playing they often play in middle (alto/tenor) register, which can not be heard well. When their solo part goes down to the bass register, it can not be heard more, one hears just the noise of two bass voices.

What is to save? (concluded)

Things out of use: to throw into the waste container.

Works: to be saved. After use to throw into the waste container. Useless works as well.

Living nature: Let them live and die as they do normally in the nature.

People: People in danger or in disease are to save. People who die naturally should be let die naturally. Suicide people are not to save, let they do what they want.