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20 November 2009 344 views 6 Comments

After having this little telephone pick up sitting in my kit for a long time, it finally came in use for some unorthodox ADR recording.  After that i thought I may aswell take it out in the field and see what I could pick up.

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I had played with it before in my uni days picking up all sorts of powered objects like hard drives and what not but never really left the flat with.  I wondered what London would sound like through this little gadget so I recorded my journeys through the city.   As soon as I pressed record I noticed lots of weird tones coming out of nearly everything on the street.  However things really got interesting when I got onto a bus and the magnetic tones matched the buses engines exactly.

Here’s a snippet of what I picked up that day

Chris Box – Bus 1

This includes 5 minutes on the street with street lights, shops and passing buses all influening the soundtrack, then 5 minutes onwards the interior of a bus takes over.

Next I’m going to experiment with mixing these magnetic sounds with some bin-aural mics and see how they influence each other

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6 Comments »

  • mia said:

    Frigging sweet! How does the device work exactly, Chris? How does it recieve the sound signal?

  • Boco (author) said:

    It’s an inductive coil, it picks up changes in magnetic fields so when placed next to a telephone speaker it picks up whatever is transmitted. The interesting thing is there is an absolute shed load of electromagnetics around in cities. Power lines, lights, everything that uses electricity generates something that it can pick up.

  • mia said:

    AHhhh! That is amazing. You have inspired me to buy one and perform the same experiment in Melbourne. Thanks.

  • Boco (author) said:

    Good good, look forward to hearing it

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