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RE: AW: transistor radios Re: Re: bose pa speaker thingie
>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. :-(
>