Post AU7cJsaiGlzCxpSCMC by keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca
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 (DIR) Post #AU7cJr5pq5h0Jm01aa by ice@merveilles.town
       2023-03-29T16:30:50Z
       
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       I’ve got a new "music player". As in "what kind of weird noise will this random object produce if I put that little black box next to it while wearing headphones?"I’m not sure how to define the SOMA Ether. It’s a bit of a noise instrument, a bit of a detector. It’s described as an anti-radio, since it grabs broad unfiltered radio waves and electromagnetic activity.Using it feels like ghost hunting. I now have no doubt that my washing machine is inhabited by some drill n bass spirit.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU7cJrpv4kYWchYpQ8 by mcc@mastodon.social
       2023-03-29T20:46:51Z
       
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       @ice I have one of these, a thing I really like doing is walking around town wearing these and seeing how the sound changes. I've experienced walking down a section and finding a two-meter space where I walk into this patch of sidewalk, bam on like a light is a loud hum, I walk out on the other side, bam it's off. Apparently I just walked over a buried power cable, I couldn't have known was there otherwise. It's like having an entire new *sense* for directly experiencing EM fields, it's amazing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU7cJsaiGlzCxpSCMC by keithzg@fediverse.keithzg.ca
       2023-03-29T22:35:56.597010Z
       
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       @mcc @ice That sounds so damn cool; reminds me of how my main University library had detectors that put out enough EMR at the right frequencies to cause earbuds to hum, but also they were often broken—when I was dodging library fees because they'd missed a return I'd made and I was being stubborn about it, I'd use that to know when I could take books in or out of the library ;)