Everybody Hertz: The Amazing World of Frequency, from Bad Vibes to Good Vibrations

Richard Mainwaring

Hardcover | 14 x 3.8 x 21.8 cm | 304 pp

Profiule Books | 2022 | 9781788165426

Vic Tandy was a level-headed scientist, but there was no denying it: at this late hour in his lonely lab at Coventry University, he kept seeing a grey apparition out of the corner of his eye. Bathed in a cold sweat, his heart pounding in his chest, he questioned his own rational mind - could this really be a supernatural encounter? What on Earth could be sending such an eerie shudder through his body?

Strange frequencies are all around us - in fact, there may be no limit to the marvellous power of vibration. So catch a wave with musical adventurer Richard Mainwaring and take a wild ride across the keys of his infinite piano. Along the way, you'll join the quest for the world's loneliest whale, whose tragically out-of-tune song has haunted oceanographers for decades. You'll discover what strange melodies are hidden in rats' whiskers and rainbows. And you'll find out how vibrations good and bad govern more or less everything around you.

Richard Mainwaring is a musician, composer, broadcaster and educator. He presented around fifty music films on the BBC's flagship magazine programme The ONE Show, is a regular voice on BBC Radio Wales, and has performed with everyone from Hugh Laurie to the BBC Concert Orchestra, from the Zombies to The Phantom of the Opera.
Richard has composed numerous TV scores for the BBC, Channels 4 and 5, Discovery Channel and Central China TV, and was commissioned to write an ambient electronic work for the International Space Station, the first time a specially written piece had ever been played in space.

'Once you start reading this utterly fascinating book it is nigh impossible to put it down ... This is a gem' Dame Evelyn Glennie