ETHER: another weird object from Soma Labs – it captures electromagnetic waves

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While we’re waiting on the fascinating Pulsar-23 to emerge Soma Labs keeps us entertained with other gadgets and instruments. This one is called ETHER and is a wide-band pocket receiver that turns the electromagnetic landscape around you into a live soundscape that you control and manipulate by walking around and waving it. ETHER They describe it […]

BBC archives release 16,016 sound effects online for personal use

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Some of my first vinyl purchases as a kid were BBC Sound Effects records. From awesome laser zaps and sci-fi planetary bubbles to industrial machines and falling rocks I would listen to these things for reasons I can no longer remember. Then I discovered pop music and my eclectic taste was lost forever. So when I […]