FM radio transmitter kit with download code. Includes custom printed circuit board, electronic components, essay, and assembly instructions in a laser-engraved tin. Limited edition of 50.
Tracklisting:
1. The ether is free (26:00)
Photos by Patrick Lacasse.
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Fictive radioscapes that recall shortwave dérives and the sound of the ionosphere doing its own thing. Peopled by chirps and chatter, radio ‘static’ reveals an electromagnetic wilderness, traversed by spectral voices, stray ciphers and peeling heterodyne tones. Early radio ops projected themselves into an ’etheric ocean’ that had always existed, never knowing quite what they’d tangle with, or become, along the way. Late-radio is over-allocated and underpopulated, encroached and enclosed by binary platforms. A people of oscillators turns off its phone, turns back to the wilderness and imagines an etheric commons waiting to be recovered.
Released as a build-it-yourself FM radio transmitter kit, including custom printed circuit board, electronic components, assembly instructions, essay, and a digital download code, all enclosed in a laser-engraved tin and by which the sound therein is intended to be broadcast-- re-transmit for accurate delivery.
credits
released April 15, 2024
Originally transmitted 2019-10-12 14:17:21 UTC -5.
Audio (prepared and improvised), text, image, print and PCB design by Paul Langdon. Magnetically captured by Robert K. Chapman; recording used by kind permission. Product design assistance by Nathan Medema. RF consultation and prototype assistance by Jean-François Blanchette.
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