Sonologyst - Shortwave Spectrum
(c) 2023 Cold Spring
Artist....: Sonologyst
Album.....: Shortwave Spectrum
Source....: WEB/MP3
Tracks....: 7
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Cold Spring
Encoder...: LAME 3.100
Quality...: 320 kbps / 441kHz / Full Stereo
URL.......: http://deezer.com/album/509489271
Tracklist:
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1. Sleeper Agent 4:46
2. Numbers Station 4:35
3. NNN German 7:45
4. Enigma G03 4:31
5. Encoded 14:05
6. Spektrvm 13:47
7. Shortwaves 41:51
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91:20
Total:220.49MB / 91:20
Release Notes:
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The new Sonologyst "sonic documentary" delves into the secretive realm of
shortwave transmissions; a chronicle of clandestine shortwave transmissions
culled from a span of nearly four decades (1982-2021). These mysterious
transmissions - repetitive voices, signals, sound pulses, short pieces of music
- were collated and edited to compose the tracks of the main album.
Immersed in an isolating fog of dark ambient, deep drone music and cinematic
sound art, it provides an auditory exploration of the ongoing Cold War.
Originating from covert radio stations engaged in military and espionage
endeavours, the tracks unveil a hidden sonic landscape of strategic
communication.
The second disc, in its extensive presentation, provides a deeper immersion into
these enigmatic broadcasts. Each recording remains unaltered, accompanied only
by a ghostly drone. It offers an unfiltered glimpse into the world of
clandestine communication, where words are transmitted beneath the radar and in
the shadowy confines of the electromagnetic spectrum.
NUMBER STATIONS:
The so-called Number Stations are short-wave radio transmissions, broadcast at
various hours of the day, and with variable durations, available on many
frequencies and observed and studied for decades by radio amateurs from all over
the world. These mysterious transmissions, consisting of voices reading groups
of numbers or letters in the international phonetic alphabet, or of Morse code
signals or sound pulses, are often preceded by transmission start "alerts"
consisting of short pieces of music, sequences of letters or scales of notes,
cyclically repeated at set times.
Several studies, conducted by telecommunications experts, have concluded that
these transmissions were, and still are, used by numerous secret services to
transmit short text messages to their undercover agents, operating in other
countries. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, these transmissions
suffered a significant decrease, but in recent years other broadcasts have
followed the raising of respective new global geopolitical players, and Chinese,
Korean and Indian Numbers Stations have been picked up.
Shortwave is cheap, reliable, and, unlike web communications, cannot be
intercepted or blocked except in the event of a nuclear explosion. The ideal
secret communication system in times of new cold war.