Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0708241837290.20801@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: skipping and ghost-traps
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:37:41 -0400 (EDT)
skipping and ghost-traps skipping as the third walk/run/skip gait - where is OUR ethnography of skipping BUT radio waves - shortwaves, spherics, whistlers: ionosopheric skipping in the samples here, the GROUND of the crystal radio is connected to the ANTENNA of a second crystal radio the OUTPUT of the first (large loose coupler) c.r. connects to the INPUT of a VLF (very low frequency) radio the OUTPUT of the VLF radio connects to the INPUT of a minidisk recorder the two crystal radios operate with DIODES and COILS: INDUCTORs the COILS are ghost-traps absorbing everything within their spectral range nothing but wound wire self-inducting, mutually inducting, everything around they capture invisible spirits how close to the speed of light _mdos_ or 'thread-cross' 'In other cases the _mdos_ fulfills the same purpose as a _gtor ma_; it provides a temporary abode for a deity.' 'The patches of wood which are often attached to the sticks forming the _mdos_ are in this case supposed to represent the clouds floating around the heavenly abode.' (Oracles and Demons of Tibet, The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities, Rene deNebesky-Wojkowitz, Paljor, 1998) the RANGE appears to cover the medium-wave (AM) band as well as somewhat above and below it. http://www.asondheim.org/cryr1.jpg and http://www.asondheim.org/cryr2.jpg = images of the circuitry http://www.asondheim.org/dean0.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/dean1.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/dean2.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/dean3.jpg = our happy home; we are on the third floor of what has become (thanks to the RATNER PROJECT) an URBAN WASTELAND. you can SEE OUR ROOF BUT YOU CAN'T SEE OUR WIRES the sound files: http://www.asondheim.org/rrr1.wav sample wa file with interesting content to be use http://www.asondheim.org/rr3hiss.wav this is a second output file with a hiss filter applied in such a manner that everything but the hiss is filtered out the result is a radio background soundtrack with quite interesting phases shifts and other phenomena http://www.asondheim.org/rrr4.wav a third file again with interesting content presented 'straight' there is are some changes as a result of switching wires but what's of great interest (that word again) is the tremolo (using a galena crystal instead of a diode) as well as a high-pitched signal and other background materials http://www.asondheim.org/rrr4hiss.wav the same filel with hiss only remaining http://www.asondheim.org/rrr4hissminus.wav the same file with hiss removed http://www.asondheim.org/maple.jpg a closeup of our japanese maple which oversees everything