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

["max valentino" <ekstasis1@hotmail.com>]

>From: "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Subject: AW: transistor radios Re: Re: bose pa speaker thingie
>Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:12:56 -0700
>
>Rainer wrote:
>"Now it might be a problem to get FM radio frequencies to send on...don't
>know how this is in the US, but I can tell you this is a no-no in
>Germany."
>
>I don't know about in Germany, but here in America you can buy kids toys
>that have really cheap and weak wireless transmitters built into a 
>microphone so
>that you can tune your FM radio to a certain channel and then broadcast 
>on 
>it.
>They make them in China and Taiwan.  You can get 10 or 15 feet away from 
>the reciever but not much further.
>
>I have done a piece of music where I took three boomboxes and then played
>with those toy mics directionally.   You can then 'play' the noise 
>sources 
>as you turn in and out of the field of each boombox.    It's pretty cool 
>and the auto tune features of the FM radios result in a virtual
>hard gating of the transmission when you turn off axis to the different 
>FM 
>radios so you can make rhythmically precise moves.
>
>I took the graphic equalizers and just made radically different EQ curves 
>so that the noise
>transmitted would appear to be a different pitch (or actually range of 
>pitches).
>
>It was pretty amazing,  It took a little while to get the coordination 
>down 
>but I was able to do some pretty articulate phrases by moving the 
>micropone 
>through space with quick right angle moves.
>
>Does this make sense what I'm describing.  It was very low tech but very 
>cool.
>Unfortunately I didn't record it.  :-(
>