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Carriers
stephen gard →20 listeners149 plays
jazzelectroniccontemporary classicalorchestralglitch
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Carriers is both an experiment with 'glitch' or microsound music, and the bounty of fifteen years of short-wave radio listening. The audio material was gathered from a communications receiver, by tuning it across the entire High Frequency spectrum (1.6 MHz - 30 MHz), seeking the odd and beautiful sonorities that haunt the ether: the chatter of data transmissions, the whine of carrier waves, the chuckle and splash of static, the background hash from stars, and the Babel of voices from broadcasting stations, in a hundred tongues. gabble: a test transmission on behalf of the composer. scatter: an experiment in using pure 'glitch': static crashes, clicks, crackles, thuds, and unidentified moans. newfoundlandS: on December 11,1901, Guglielmo Marconi, listening intently to a chaos of static at his station in Newfoundland, received the first international short-wave transmissions, sent by spark transmitter from Poldhu, in Cornwall. The message consisted of the repeated letter 'S'... radio = a new found land. heterodialectic: mixing two frequencies to produce a third frequency is called 'heterodyning'. Mixing two old ideas to produce a fresh idea is called 'Hegelian dialectic.' BFO: a beat frequency oscillator in the receiver provides the second heterodyning frequency, which is added ('tuned') until the signal becomes clear. When tuned to a pure carrier, containing no data, this beat-frequency produces a sine-tone that can be twiddled and 'played' like a musical instrument,
