The Long Range Acoustic Device

The Long Range Acoustic Device™ (LRAD®) is a highly directional acoustic array that is designed for long-range communication and unmistakable warning. The LRAD device can issue a verbal warning and has the capability of following up with a deterrent tone to influence behavior or determine intent.

Phone Recording Archive

Here are a bunch of phone company recordings that I have recorded off of my phone.

PALAOA - Transmitting live from the Ocean below the Antarctic Ice

You can listen to the underwater sound of the Antarctic Ocean with a delay of a few seconds here.

Western Soundscape Archive

The Western Soundscape Archive (WSA) recognizes the vital connection between places and their soundscapes and features audio recordings of animals and environments throughout the western United States

Recording the sounds of the West

Two archivists aim to catalog the soundscapes of Western states -- birds, rattlesnakes, bats -- before the racket of modern life drowns them out.

Eerie Sounds of Saturn's Radio Emissions

Saturn is a source of intense radio emissions, which have been monitored by the Cassini spacecraft. The radio waves are closely related to the auroras near the poles of the planet. These auroras are similar to Earth's northern and southern lights. This is an audio file of radio emissions from Saturn.

Why pirates are currently legal

From Pirate Cat Radio's website

Thanks to George Bush for declaring the "War Against Terrorism" and U.S. Code of Federal Regulations title 47 section 73.3542, it is now technically legal to operate a radio transmitter with out a formal license.

Take a look for you self:

§ 73.3542 Application for emergency authorization.

(a) Authority is granted, on a temporary basis, in extraordinary circumstances requiring emergency operation to serve the public interest. such situations include: emergencies involving danger to life and property; a national emergency proclaimed by the President or the Congress of the USA and; the continuance of any war in which the United States is engaged, and where such action is necessary for the national defense or security or otherwise in furtherance of the war effort.

Homemade "quick and dirty" record disc-cutting lathe

World Health Organizaton: Noise and health

Noise seriously harms human health and interferes with people’s daily activities at school, at work, at home and during leisure time. Traffic noise alone is harming today the health of almost every third European.

AURORAL ACOUSTICS

Study of Sounds & Acoustical Effects Related to
Geomagnetic Storms and Aurora Borealis

Favorite Recorded Scream: at last, a record that’s really worth shouting about

The result, available on a 12-inch LP simply entitled Favorite Recorded Scream, is a superb marriage of concept and execution, as meticulous a deconstruction and re-examination of pop music’s formal elements as anything that has recently emerged from the world of sound art.

Construction of Radio Equipment in a Japanese POW Camp

Transcript of a recording by Lieutenant Colonel R G Wells, on the construction of radio equipment whilst in a Japanese Prisoner of War camp after the fall of Singapore.

Listen to Africa

Recordings of rural and urban soundscapes made during our 24,000 kilometre bicycle expedition across the continent.

Drivers to quote Gandhi on Tube

Transport for London has commissioned Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller to compile a list of bon mots to be used by Tube drivers.

Among the quotes on offer will be Gandhi's, "there is more to life than increasing at speed".

Deller hopes they will make commuters' journeys a bit more thought provoking.

Audio Theater

What you will find here is a list of those producing this art form, Sources for finding tapes and cd's, Resources for those who want to try their hand at producing Audio Theater and reviews of current titles.

Have you heard 'the Hum'?

For decades, hundreds of people worldwide have been plagued by an elusive buzzing noise known as "the Hum". Some have blamed gas pipes or power lines, others think their ears are faulty. A few even think sinister forces could be at work.

Sound mirrors

A forerunner of radar, acoustic mirrors were built on the south and northeast coasts of England between about 1916 and the 1930s. The ‘listening ears’ were intended to provide early warning of incoming enemy aircraft.

Jailhouse radio - Louisiana State Prison radio station KLSP (1990)

Out of the small studio in the one-story brick control center building of the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, KLSP broadcasts from noon until midnight, seven days a week.

The Encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the Post-Media Era

Felix and Alice in Wonderland: The Encounter between Guattari and Berardi and the Post-Media Era
by Michael Goddard

This is not to say that Guattari’s post-media era has nothing to do with network culture, whose development can certainly be seen to realise and confirm some aspects of the rhizomatic, machinic thought Guattari developed alone and with Gilles Deleuze. Rather this link will be shown to be more complex and to pass via other fields of media experimentation and thought, especially that which emerged around ‘popular free radio’ in Italy in the 1970’s and which was strongly associated with Guattari’s friend Franco Berardi or Bifo.

Tetsuo Kogawa interviews Félix Guattari

Three interviews from 1980-1981 (English and French)