Music Production Info

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This recording is from a shortwave transmission on 6752kHz USB on 25th September 2009.

Sometimes known as The Backwards Music Station and also as Whale Music, it has no discernable schedule, and often disappears for long periods.

It’s not known what the purpose of these broadcasts are – but they wouldn’t sound out of place in a classical electroacoustic concert.

If you know anything more about the Backward Music Station, leave a comment!

via Mystery Signals of the Short Wave:

These signals are heard on a variety of frequencies, and are heard all around the world.  Possibly a recognised form of communication, but not resolvable.

There appears to be two sources of these signals. One being somewhere in the United States possibly the US Navy – freqs are close to naval freqs, and reports have been received that they emanate from US naval bases as Jacksonville,  Florida & Virginia Beach.

Other signals heard in England at good strength, are poorly received in America, indicating a European source An early suggestion was that the signals are a NATO communication device, coming from a base in Palermo, Sicily.  More recently, utilities monitor Ary Boender reports the source of these signals as the U.S. Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily.

It has also been suggested that these signals may be a form of communication called LINCOMPEX.  Standing for Linear Compression & Expansion, this system is used as a communication method both by commercial & Defence bodies. One correspondent to ENIGMA suggested it was caused by the Lincompex “pilot tone seeking lock”.

In personal email, Tom Norris tells me he used to operate HF systems with Lincompex, but can find no reference to a “Pilot Tone” in the system he used, and describes the device as simply a very complex phone patch. What he does recall is that if the “null” of an Lincompex is not properly adjusted, there can be some feedback produced as well.

Another theory quoted is that the signal is just feedback from naval transmitters using open channels – or due to faults in the transmitter.

via Waveformless

February 19 2009 by SIGHUP

SIGHUP has released Held in Frame – a collection of four solo performances done throughout 2009 with the Bugbrand AudioWeevil 08.

The recordings are all presented in mono, in keeping with the intended simplicity of the presentation. The Audioweevil is the primary sound source, run through a few effects pedals

The performances are described as “an attempt at a folk music that is defined by the instrument and the player rather than any commonly-held definition of folk music.”

29th January 2010: Syflex has announced that Sylfid-f1 is now also available as an Audio Units plug-in (AU) for Mac OS X. A new version of the VST plug-in also brings improved sound quality on Mac OS X. This is a free …