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Taajuuksia ja ä​ä​niä

by Arvik Torrenssen

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Taajuuksia ja ääniä - Frequencies and tones

This track uses samples from the reel-to-reel tape recording taken by a young Dan Robinson during the 1970s in the USA, using a rare Hammarlund HQ-180A/X shortwave receiver (the X version uses fixed crystal units in place of the clock). Dan had tuned into the other side of the world to receive the long distance "DX" radio station the Voice of Saudi Arabia which was testing a new powerful shortwave radio transmitter system.

Shortwave radio has many similarities with the creation of ambient drone generative soundscapes, such as the use of discrete frequencies, harmonics and heterodynes when using multiple phased sounds and signals; for example, the interference and static from the original track, usually the noises which are unwanted when listening to a radio, are very useful to use within ambient soundscapes, and many were sampled and used, for example the atmospheric “static crashes” and the hum at the start of the recording which was used to create the base layer bass tone. The addition of a typical shortwave broadcast station "interval signal" which we processed using a phase distortion tools to mimic shortwave ionospheric fading and signal degradation.

And exactly as the original recording stated "our present transmission is experimental" - ours is too; and we would like to take this opportunity to thank Dan Robinson for his original recording and to all at Cities and Memory project for this opportunity to reimagine this fragment of shortwave radio history.

citiesandmemory.com/shortwave/

citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-transmissions

citiesandmemory.com

audioboom.com/posts/8012187-taajuuksia-ja-aania


Mastered by Francis Gri at KSND (krysalisound.com/mastering)

#drone #ambient #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #experimentalmusic

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released February 13, 2022

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