Re: Internet as a delay (was Re: Streaming from our recording studio)

["Dennis W. Leas" <dennis@mdbs.com>]

This rings a bell.  In the distant past, I heard of a scheme by some 
branch of the U.S. 
military (perhaps the Army) to produce a database "site" which would be 
always secured 
against natural disaster, etc.  The idea was to transmit the data (in an 
encoded form) via 
radio to the moon, the signal would rebound from the moon and echo back to 
the earth where 
it would be regenerated and re-transmitted, hence forming a long, 
recirculating, delay 
loop.  Cool idea, probably never implemented.

It opens up all kinds of strange and wonderful ideas for "alternate 
technology" looping.  
You could set up long acoustic delay lines, using perhaps long wires or 
railroad tracks.  I 
like the idea of the Internet as a delay (it usually functions as a delay 
anyway :) ).  I 
read a book some time past where a person in Australia set-up transducers 
on long telegraph 
lines and "listened" to the environment.  He spoke of it as a very 
Zen-like thing, like 
having your nervous system stretching for miles across the country-side.  
He could hear 
"ticks" as the wire heated up due to the morning sun, birds landing on the 
wire and clouds 
of insects colliding.  I found it fascinating to read...but I ramble.

- Dennis Leas

David Evans wrote:
> 
> Sunao Inami wrote:
> >
> > btw,
> > A few days ago,I tested Real audio live encoding.
> > It need about 6sec for encode to decode(encoder -> real server ->  
>probably
> > many routers -> decoder).
> > I can use it for delay machine.Internet delay loop ;)
> >
> 
>   Now *that* is one of the craziest effects ideas I've ever heard of!
> 
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