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[the Goat]

http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=080627-earth-sounds

I always find shit like this really fascinating.

[mediumrare]

I dunno, seems like quite an arbitrary decision to model those radio signals as sound.

Though t'would be an interesting sound to pop into a song and be able to go "Ah yes, but do you know what that noise right there actually is?". Interesting for a couple of minutes, maybe.

[blanktom]

WTF Why does the narrators voice sound like Microsoft Speech.

I nearly fell asleep.

[KickThatBathProf]

What blanktom said.  Go with John Cage's Imaginary Landscapes No. 4 for better music with radioes

[KharBevNor]

Though t'would be an interesting sound to pop into a song and be able to go "Ah yes, but do you know what that noise right there actually is?". Interesting for a couple of minutes, maybe.

I made a whole 14 minute ambient track entirely out of radio-astronomy noises and the sounds of old satellites and spaceships. It was alright.

[gardenhead_]

this reminded me of Jacob Kirkegaard.

With the use of unorthodox recording tools such as accelerometers, hydrophones or home-built electromagnetic receivers, Kirkegaard manages to capture and explore "secret sounds" - distortions, interferences, vibrations, ambiences - from within a variety of environments: volcanic earth, a nuclear power plant, an empty room, a TV tower, crystals, ice... and the human inner ear itself.

it's suprisingly makes for really listenable ambient music.

[the Goat]

I dunno, seems like quite an arbitrary decision to model those radio signals as sound.

[mediumrare]

Yes, I see, but using the magnitudes of amplitude and frequency of a radio wave as the amplitude and frequency of sound waves is a different process from what goes on inside your average household radio.

I assumed that's what they did, due to the graph in the background of that video. But could it be I'm an idiot?