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rurban power lines

from Magnetic Focus by Absolute Value of Noise

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This track was recorded while I was walking from the bus stop into UBC Farm. The farm is on a university campus, in an area that has traditionally been forest but is now being turned into massive apartment buildings. The power lines along the roads are still isolated from any other type of radiative VLF source. At one point the power lines turn at a 90 degree angle and the VLF patterns tend to interfere with each other in interesting ways.

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from Magnetic Focus, released October 8, 2008

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absolute value of noise Vancouver, British Columbia

Influenced by Merzbow, the Haters, Negativland and other denizens of noise-art culture, Absolute Value of Noise takes sound to the extreme. The artist likes to work with "gadgetry" - custom turntables, lamp filaments, wire coils, high voltage ionizers, robots, feedback systems, magnetic transmitters and receivers - to create both intense collages and minimal sonic threads. ... more

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