Re: Re: transistor radios Re: Re: bose pa speaker thingie

[burnett@pobox.com]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2005, mark sottilaro wrote:

> I always wanted to do a show where people brought (or
> were lent) small FM radios with headphones and instead
> of a traditional PA I did a small FM broadcast at a
> specific frequency.  Ideally it would be an outdoor
> show.  I think it would be great to see a huge group
> of people groov'n to music that's silent to onlookers.
> Perhaps people could even get some sleep at
> Burningman if such technology was used. ;)
>
> Mark

I think that's exactly what the big Glastonbury music festival in England 
did this summer in response to a noise edict that would have prevented 
them doing their big nighttime rave: they got something like 3000 Walkmans 
and distributed them to everyone who came :).

best,
Steve B
Phasmatodea     http://www.phasmatodea.net/
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Fukadugalon, Laccoon, Audio Arcade

> --- Timothy Mungenast <mungenast@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> I am just barely old enough to remember the heyday
>> of the cheap "Close & Play" -esque turntables and
>> so-called transistor radios with the optional
>> hearing aid-style earpieces fed by thin coiled
>> wires.
>> Thanks for the memories!
>> ~Tim Mungenast