Word of Week: BORBORYGMI

[Garritan]

Grant has suggested our new word for the week:

BORBORYGMI
Pronounced BOR-boh-RIG-mee

Borborygmi means:

1. Rumbling sounds caused by gas moving through the intestines (stomach "growling").

Grant is renown for his www.contrabass.com site and this word is related to sonic rumblings. This rumbly-in-the-tummy is a sound that may need to be sampled.

I am hearing borborygmic noises :hp:

Thanks Grant for this week's word.

And feel free to volunteer some of your favorite words for the next Word of the Week.

Gary Garritan

[rwayland]

Grant has suggested our new word for the week:

BORBORYGMI
Pronounced BOR-boh-RIG-mee

Borborygmi means:
1. Rumbling sounds caused by gas moving through the intestines (stomach "growling").
Grant is renown for his www.contrabass.com (http://www.contrabass.com) site and this word is related to sonic rumblings. This rumbly-in-the-tummy is a sound that may need to be sampled.

I am hearing borborygmic noises :hp:

Thanks Grant for this week's word.

And feel free to volunteer some of your favorite words for the next Word of the Week.

Gary Garritan

Well, I had thought of writing a short story, with characters named Borbo Rygmus (the singular form) and Perry Stalsis (Peristalsis) and their travels on the Dirac seas. But I never got around to it.

Richard

[Leaf]

I'll be right back, i have to go visit the Wierd dynamics you've used thread.

[etLux]

Another challenge for Human Playback...

[rpearl]

And in which library will this included? Will it be a Keyswitch instrument? Don't think about that too long...

[rbowser-]

Try the mod wheel controlled Bass Drum roll in GPO - Instant Borborygmi!

As always, one can find the basis for all sorts of surprising effects in the Garritan Libraries!

Randy B.
(rbowser)

[dsampson55]

Many years ago (mid 70s) I was taking a course in PA system design. The professor mentioned some interesting research he was reading at the time.

It seems that the gov't was exploring new ways of handling crowd control for the anti-war demonstrations and riots that had taken place over the previous 10 years. One area of research was in using acoustic devices.

It turns out that the resonate frequency of the large intestine is somewhere between 7 and 9 Hz. So what the gov't wanted to do was use a BIG amplifier to produce a signal. The idea being that once you got a good riot going and this device was activated, everyone would get a sudden attack of Montezuma's revenge. It's hard to have a good riot when you are otherwise occupied. :wow:

The problem is, how do you make sure this doesn't affect the police as well. They went back to the drawing board.

dave

[Leaf]

Try the mod wheel controlled Bass Drum roll in GPO - Instant Borborygmi!

As always, one can find the basis for all sorts of surprising effects in the Garritan Libraries!

Randy B.
(rbowser)I was playing with the effects in the KontaktPlayer, and found that Bari Sax + distortion + delay + chorus + reverb = Borborygmi

PS: can you help disshartha?
http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55812
I don't know if what i told him is correct or if he needs more info.

[reberclark]

There once was a chick that did dig me,
Though I am a very small pygmy
With hacks, coughs and wheezes,
And sundry diseases
Like flatulence and Borborygmi.

[Styxx]

Be sharp, always be natural, never be flatulence.

[reberclark]

Nobody seems to be inspired by "borborygmi," so I thought I'd post this to keep the topic on the first page.

[KE Peace]

There once was a chick that did dig me,
Though I am a very small pygmy
With hacks, coughs and wheezes,
And sundry diseases
Like flatulence and Borborygmi.

There once was a lady from France
Who would tout every new-fangled dance.
The Tango Alfredo,
The Salsa Tomato,
And the Borborygamous Waltz, too, perchance.

Reberclark, that's a great one. There's no topping that, but i just gotta at least write something limericklicious... hence the above, whichis very silly indeed :-)

[reberclark]

There once was a lady from France
Who would tout every new-fangled dance.
The Tango Alfredo,
The Salsa Tomato,
And the Borborygamous Waltz, too, perchance.

Reberclark, that's a great one. There's no topping that, but i just gotta at least write something limericklicious... hence the above, whichis very silly indeed :-)

The "Tango Alfredo" was grand,
But the "Salsa Tomato" was banned.
It caused an "indig'ny"
Pronounced "Borborygmi"
Which diners could not understand.

A word pronounced "limericklicious"
Was written by one "K. E. Picious"
It rolls 'round my mind
With echoes I find
To be tasty (but somewhat suspicious!)

The "Borborygamous Waltz"
Was breezy and didn't have faults.
Unless you would count
The amazing amount
Of the dancers who need smelling salts!

Nice to hear from you K.E. How's the weather up there in the mountains?

[KE Peace]

Nice to hear from you K.E. How's the weather up there in the mountains?

Wow, "Soup" you are productive! I do like limericks, ahve for a long time. Well the weather -- do you mean at 5000 feet or 9000? At 5 or 6000, where i live, pleasant, 70-80's days, mostly sun, with a tinge of fall in the air. Evenings cool, Nights cool to colder (40-ish) sometimes.

I went on a vacation with a friend in the mountains at 9000 feet. I happened to pick the worst 2 days of the entire summer. It rained most of time, so my report is skewed, but there, cold, chance of snow they said. Frost in the mornings. Brrrrr!

Cheers,
Karen

[Styxx]

One Borgorygmi on rye and hold the squeezinzs!