ETHER Anti-Radio (2019)¶
ETHER V2 (by SOMA laboratory) DEMO¶
ETHER V2 (by SOMA laboratory) DEMO from Vlad Kreimer on YouTube.
Description¶
Demo of the second version of ETHER by SOMA laboratory. Product page: https://somasynths.com/ether/ Demo of the first version with important explanations what is it and how does it work: https://youtu.be/BdiGn0LPMPs The artist: Ekaterina Khmelevskaya
ETHER V1 by SOMA laboratory¶
ETHER V1 by SOMA laboratory from Vlad Kreimer on YouTube.
Description¶
ETHER 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 moving ETHER with your hand. More info and how to buy: https://somasynths.com/ether/ Demo of current version 2 of ETHER: https://youtu.be/NzpzO_1Mlt8 Credits: Text editing - Thomas Lundberg The Narrator - Beautiful Sola.
References¶
ETHER is a wide-band receiver that makes it possible to perceive the electromagnetic landscape around you.
ETHER is a kind of anti-radio. Instead of being tuned to a specific radio station, it receives all the interference and radiation that a traditional radio tries to eliminate in order to create a clean signal. It captures the radio waves “as is” from hertz to gigahertz because it doesn’t contain the tuned input circuit that filters out all frequencies except the narrow band of a specific station. This allows ETHER to perceive the invisible electromagnetic landscape that humans created unintentionally, making possible live electromagnetic field listening and recording.
As the inspiration for this project, I took the design of the very first radios (early 1900s) that had no tuning wheel. At this time there weren’t many radio stations, and all of them used Morse code. It was possible to distinguish each transmitter by ear, as each one had its own specific timbre or “voice”.
Also, we have to mention the earliest pioneer of electromagnetic fields art investigations – Christina Kubisch.
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ETHER was designed to be a part of your walks in the city and may even pick up sounds in a forest or at the seashore (I have such experience). Also, ETHER can perceive the electric component of the radiation as well, capturing radiation that is far above the audio range and is much more sensitive. Therefore, it has a significantly different design, functions and implementation than a simple inductive sniffer even if in some cases their functions can overlap.
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We hope that a new kind of field recording will arise with the release of ETHER. We want people to experience and enjoy the artificial urban environment in a new way. There is lots of sonic beauty to discover amid the concrete and steel greyness of the modern-day metropolis, a true invisible electromagnetic world for us to uncover. Take your friends and together go find the coolest disembodied electronic sounds of the urban and industrial landscapes around you!