exhalations

Shortwave noise/music - Today's Post has a good article on Akin Fernandez's obsession with shortwave radio sounds. He turned this obsession into The Conet Project, a musical compilation of these sounds, a sample of which was later included in Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot CD. Fernandez sued and won an out-of-court settlement.

Among the many bizarre sounds heard by Fernandez were numbers spoken by various people in several languages. These "Number Stations" turned out to contain coded messages for intelligence agents around the world.

While the Post mentioned that the recordings can be downloaded from the Conet site, I couldn't find the link. Google helped me find this site where the four disc Conet Project is available for download.

It appears that many of the Irdial.com discs are available for download , including this otherworldly recording, Islets in Pink Polypropylene by Anthony Manning.

posted by Bruce Wright at 2:05 PM #