Shortwave Records Date: 01/05/20 Time: 18:20-18:40 Location: University of Twente, WebSDR
00:00:00 NHK - distorted gong music, or maybe a singing bowl played rapidly?
00:00:23 Static storm - blizzard
00:00:30 Pretend Morse - back into nonverbal communication on the hunt for morse code. Beep beep beep beep sounds like pretend morse to me.
00:00:43 Radio France 00:00:55 Tur Anti Kurdish 00:01:08 Underwater - floating about with the submarines, feeling the water pressure on my ears 00:01:10 Amateurs on the 2 meter band - perhaps strangers, meeting for the first time...
00:01:17 Apparently Danish Prog Rock - some light music for the finale of my shortwave listening exploration, the “Danish Prog Rock” station shared in the log book.
00:01:26 Beeps and Textures - my submarine is communicating, sub aquatic wifi signals fly, a voice ….?
00:01:33 Booop - long high tone with indecipherable speech
00:01:36 Boop boop boop - tonal scales with distortion
00:01:42 China Radio 1-44k
00:01:58 China Radio 44k -no idea what they’re talking about, sounds like an underwater recording
00:02:04 Danish Prog Rock at 5805kHz
00:02:20 Evil robot talking - warped voice with a neverending boop 00:02:32 Finding signal
00:02:41 Found piano
00:02:46 Amateurs on the 80 meter band - speaking German?
00:02:55 More pretend morse - this pretend more sounds like an intermittent waterfall, still untranslatable …
00:02:59 Holy Quran - beautiful tones, slightly distorted
00:03:26 One-sided convo - like a puppet talking. Is it possible to hear only one half of a conversation on a given frequency?
00:03:34 Panning from China to USA
00:03:43 Radio China
00:04:01 Radio Japan
00:04:06 Radio Romania
00:04:12 Radio Vaticana - French like I’ve never heard it before
00:04:21 Radio Ashnam 00:04:26 Robot rave - 37 seconds of insanity
00:04:38 Robot talking - fax machine nightmare
00:04:44 Scifi - sound effects from a low-budget 1960’s scifi tv show
00:04:55 Scrolling 242kHz 00:05:16 Something to say to our listeners - high-pitched mumbling: Getting out of bed? Partner in Beijing, freelance interpreter? Like trying to remember a dream.
00:05:32 Unknown
00:05:35 Voice of Korea
00:06:06 Weeeoooweeeooo - tonal play
00:06:23 Voice of Korea at 12012.97kHz - a quarantine story
00:07:11 Voices in the mist - COMMUNICATION! I hear voices. But what are they saying?! They sound far away and strained. A high pitched tone invades.
00:07:55 Talking
9490 - the pitch becomes a rhythmic beat, voices ring out clearly, a one way conversation unfurls, morphing into robot and into nothing. 00:08:11 Gender equality - some background pipe music and occasional deep robot voice as the backdrop for this talk radio station, interviewing someone from the European institute of gender equality, possibly in Lithuania. 00:08:31 Apparently the Bangkok Meteo Fax which was clearly weather data - the log book tells me this is the “Bangkok Meteo Fax” someone later comments that it “was clearly weather data”. Wow. Incredible that this can be understood. Or is it false?
00:08:37 BSKA Holy Quran
00:08:50 14997.75 and lots of scrolling
00:09:04 Scrolling, clicking, scrolling
00:09:31 The nothing sounds like toads
00:09:53 Waiting, scrolling 00:10:58 Swimming, plunged underwater, bubbles, deep
00:11:13 I surface 00:11:56 A distant hospital machine bleep...life support
00:12:21 Electricity Waiting, searching
00:13:15 I can’t hear you, secret words, muffled, through a wall, through an infinite time / space + + + ++ ++ ++ - - - -- -- -
00:14:53 Rain, sound rain, white noise rain
00:15:59 USA Quarantine...we are making time...hope this quarantine life...before I…
00:16:34 Chinese Cyborg take over, the most important thing, the best thing, cooked breakfast and lunch, conform, conform, routine, she must conform
00:18:12 Prey
00:18:33 Space opens out again, bowls chime...gone
00:18:53 Where am I? Russia, Eastern, Japan Instructions, unknown...time to leave, to return