Soma Ether

Translation from Chirping Crickets

Took the Soma Ether out for a night! There seems to be no end to what sounds can be caught with this wonderful EMF receiving 'anti-radio' from Soma Labs / Vlad Kreimer. Just received the Ether from Russia via USPS this morning. Here's raw audio of an hour in downtown Austin.

Only had it for a day but finding it's very variable. In quieter environments, Ether can find produce/receive very calming ambient tones and purr along with some very polite static and reception. You can play it like a theremin, too, attenuating and gesturing on a signal frequency, and loop on something (or a device) til it fades out of reach. But this is a demo of how loud and nicely argumentative it can be as a noise source outside among a lot of activity. It feels like a nice audio photograph of the evening and street.

Download available here: https://eptc.bandcamp.com/album/an-evening-walk-one-hour-with-the-soma-ether-raw-audio-downtown-austin-tx-march-11-10pm-11pm

AN EVENING WALK: ONE HOUR WITH THE SOMA ETHER (Raw Audio, Downtown Austin TX, 03 11 2019, 10pm-11pm)

Sample from SOMA Ether recording played chromatically + added Ether sub noise.

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