The Anstendig Institute

Vibrations: Natural and Mechanical

• Why and how vibrations affect us
• The Most Important Concept to Comprehend (The Preface to "The Body As Machine")

• The Body as Machine
• Our Bodies are Affected by the Vibrational Quality of Our Environment

• The control and use of vibrations in our daily life       
• Improving the Quality of the Vibrational Influences in your Life
• The Crucial Role of the Quality of the Musical Experiences in our Lives 
• Relaxation Techniques
• The Importance of Improving the Deplorable Quality of American Television
• "Home Theater": Facts and Fallacies
• The Problems of Automatic Fine Tuning (AFT) in TV and Video Recorders
• The Real Automobile Industry Disaster
• Euthanasia: the Difference Between Human and Animal Medicine
• The Disaster in Modern Film, TV and Video, Our Unnatural Wide-Screen Format
• Big Mistake in Shoe Design
• The Computer Operating System Mess, The Great Roadblocks to the World's Crucial Computing
  
• The Computer Monitor/Display Resolution Disaster
• The New Computer Tyranny
• The Seating, Laptop, Posture Disaster
• Posture and Walking or The Basic Make Me A Supermodel Flaws, And a Lot More
• Sound Quality, TV, and Computer Technology, 2008
• The Crucial Fault With The Top Chef Judging
• Meditation: A World-wide Misunderstanding
  

• Deep Breathing, A Mistake
• Vulgarity, or the Conflict between the Impulses of the Material Body and Their Control by the Immaterial Mind

The Psychology of Hearing

• Our conditioning to sound and sound quality
• Hearing: Our Conditioned Responses to Music

• Hearing as information processing and as aural experience
• Hearing: the Informational and the Experiential

• Using listening to music to improve concentration
• Hearing: the Problems of Concentration

• The predominance of visual (sight) oriented perspectives in musical (sound) oriented experiences
• The Misapplication of Visual Criteria in Hearing

• Misunderstanding in Sensory Comparisons
• AB Testing, A Misapplication of Visual Criteria in Audio

• A summary of the arguments regarding sound presented in the papers of The Anstendig Institute
• The Importance of Sound in Our Lives

Sound Reproduction

• Stereo as a distraction to the listening experience of music
• Stereo: a Misunderstanding

• The need for equalization controls in all sound reproduction
• Sound Equalization in Relation to the Way We Perceive Sound
• The Massing of Overtones in Sound Reproduction
• A New Way to Hear (learn how to equalize your sound system)
• The Deterioration of the Quality of Music Making Due to the Deficiencies of Recording Sound
• Program EQ: the Final, Most Important Stage in Sound Reproduction or The Need to Equalize the Sound, While Listening, to Establish Correct Original Timbre in Recording Playback



• The importance of the pickup cartridge in LP playback
• The importance of the pickup cartridge in LP playback, The Means to Revive the Quality of Music in Our Lives
• The Necessity for a Re-evaluation of All Record Criticism
• The State of the Art in Sound Reproduction, 2005: The Sao Win SMC 10 Type 4
• The Absolute State of the Art in Audio, 2007 or The Sao Win Cartridge Gets Even Better
• Sound Repro 2012

• The missing information in all CD recordings
• The Truth About CD and Digital
• Digital Recordings: a Tragedy Unrivaled in the History of Art
• Our Loss of Emotional Richness Due to Bad Sound Reproduction

• Third Party Confirmation of Deterioration of Sound Reproduction, Rolling Stone Magazine,
  • Part I, our commentary
  • Part II, the Rolling Stone Magazine article
  
  
• The shortcomings in available recording media
• The Faults of Recording Media
• Basic Problems of Sound Reproduction That Apply to Digital and Analog
• Background Noise in Video Hi-Fi (VCRs)
• The Audio, Video, and Computer Cable Controversy

• Hearing problems due to lack of sound equalization in sound reproduction
• Hearing Impairment Due to Noise and Loud Sound Reproduction

• Headphones
• Hearing Loss from Listening With Headphones

• Hearing aids
• The Mistake In Hearing Aid Design

Acoustics

• What are acoustical properties
• Concert Hall Acoustics
• An Addendum to Concert Hall Acoustics
• The Neglected Prerequisite of Concert Hall Design



• Sound reproduction's influence on acoustical quality
• The Disaster in Modern Concert Hall Acoustics

• Davies Hall acoustics
• An Acoustic Anomaly
• The Organ of Davies Hall
• How to Correct the Acoustics of Davies Hall



• Opera House Acoustics
• The San Francisco Opera House Renovation

Our Musical Recommendations

• Mind and Music (written by Mitchell A. Cotter)
• Will the World’s Music Archives Be Lost? (or A Crisis Worse Than the Film Archive Crisis, or The Predicament of the World’s Great Serious Recording Archives)
• The Results of Our Over Three Decades of Listening
• The Listening Experience
• The Treasure Hunt - A Different Kind Of Record Review
• The Treasure Hunt - Boris Giovanni: The Most Magnificent Thing in the World
• The Treasure Hunt - Brahms Also Rhapsody
• The Treasure Hunt - Don Giovanni, One of the Greatest of Artworks
• The Treasure Hunt - Mahler Symphony No 3
• The Treasure Hunt - Mahler Symphony No 4
• The Treasure Hunt - Mahler 5th Symphony
• The Treasure Hunt - Mahler 7th Symphony
• The Treasure Hunt - Franz Shuberts Posthumous Sonata In B Flat For Piano
• The Treasure Hunt - Richard Strauss Ariadne Auf Naxos
• The Treasure Hunt - Richard Strauss Metamorphosen A Study For 23 Solo Strings
• The Treasure Hunt - Richard Strauss Salome Final Scene
• Jean Morel Tribute

Photography

• The Messraster and why no available camera can focus focal point exact*
• Why No Camera Can Focus
• Focusing Tests
• The Flaw in All Auto-Focusing Cameras: the Messraster Focal Point Exact Screen
• Why the Most Important Invention in Photography Is Not Available

• Photography-as-art is focus
• The Flawed State in Photography as Art and Documentation
• A Calamity in the World of Art (Judging Artworks by Slide Reproductions)

• Messraster photos for those who have asked what a Messraster focusing device looks like
  • The 9 x 12 cm Messraster in the Linhof back
  • 9 x 12 cm Messraster in the ground glass frame of a Linhof back, which is mounted in an
    Ilko 5 x 7 Camera back
  • Nikon letter of intent to manufacture Messraster

* Some new TTL autofocusing cameras can focus exactly on limited subject areas, but not on most subjects and not in a practical manner.

Miscellaneous Topics

• The Fallacy About Financial “Systems” That Have Failed
• The Reason for the Current Economic Crisis or The Protective Patent
• The Real Economic Problem
• Teaching Exact English
• The Looming Disaster in Teaching Language
• Lost Jobs Are Not Coming Back
• "Gay", A Misunderstanding

About The Anstendig Institute

• The Vitae of Mark Anstendig
• The Anstendig Institute
• Methods and Procedures of the Anstendig Institute
• How The Anstendig Institute Benefits the Public
• The Anstendig Institute's Contribution to Music in San Francisco

               The Anstendig Institute
               911 Fulton St.
               San Francisco, CA 94117