365 Days #84 - Telemundo - Dificultades Técnicas (Cable TV Broadcast) (mp3)
MP3:
Telemundo - Dificultades Técnica (1:27)
Digital recording and broadcasting have opened up wonderful new avenues of distortion unimaginable in the analog age. One Sunday evening last fall, Telemundo's satellite reception from our local cable company was stuttering wildly every time I tuned past it. Mesmerized though I was, I finally peeled myself off the sofa and made it to my computer in time to capture the last 87 seconds before the signal went out completely. The MP3 has not been altered or edited in any way.
- Contributed by: Perry Amberson
Image: Telemundo
Source: Cable TV Broadcast
Date: September 17, 2006
the last 30 seconds or so - sounds like Kurt Schwitters was down, 70 years ago. The loosening of word from meaning into pure sound. Beauty.
Posted by: Chris | March 25, 2007 at 01:01 AM
That's the stuff!!! Where can I get more of this material? :)
John Oswald would be proud!
Posted by: snoopy | March 25, 2007 at 01:32 AM
Wow... I can only imagine the visual component to this. Incredible. Thanks for diverting your attention long enough to hit "record..." must have been tough tearing yourself away from it.
Posted by: plasket | March 25, 2007 at 02:22 AM
something similar happened to one of the streams from my college radio station a few years back. one night, the windows media stream just went haywire, turning everything into this really awesome, unrecognizeable buzzy mess, like a vocoder gone mad or something. I listened for probably half an hour and recorded about 15 minutes of it that will someday get used for something.
Posted by: dan | March 25, 2007 at 11:38 AM
Awesome...kind of reminds me of the "mea culpa" track from my life in the bush of ghosts at one point...
Posted by: andy | March 25, 2007 at 04:38 PM
That is a stone trip!
I agree with Plasket. The video must have looked incredible.
-rocketboy
Posted by: rocketboy | March 25, 2007 at 11:18 PM
Superb! This kinda reminds me of a time I was in a fast food restaurant in Notting Hill (London) and they were playing a well-worn CD of chart hits. When it got to Red Red Wine by UB40 it hit a blob of grease and skipped and skipped ad nauseam, creating a one-off trippy, mesmeric audio feast, turning the three minute pop song into a 25 minute remix. The weird thing was that I was the only one who seemed to notice enforcing the myth that anyone who works at, or visits, a fast food restaurant is in a Stepford Wives-like trance.
Posted by: Dave | March 26, 2007 at 11:26 AM
OMG, it's like Speedy Gonzalez doing Porky the Pig's Loony Toons send-off! I think a little (lot of) reverb and a bottle of vodka is all that's missing!
Posted by: Art(uro) | March 26, 2007 at 01:26 PM
Great sound bits!! Thanks for sharing Mr. Amberson!
Posted by: poesboes | March 26, 2007 at 05:53 PM
This reminds me of the time a local TV station burned down. I had the TV on in the background when all of a sudden the picture went black and the sound went AWESOME for a couple minutes. Have you ever heard a television station scream while slowly melting from fire? Well, that's what this was. I was spellbound. Then I was kicking myself for not recording it...I was sitting right in front of my gear at the time too...just a couple switches and I could have had the whole thing on tape...
Posted by: ZB | April 01, 2007 at 10:14 PM
If you go & seek my channel on YouTube, user-name "jamesmorgandavies" - then cue up "Avant-Bohunk Mod Yule" ... assuming you can last long enough thereafter to hear it ... there's a low-key-yet-meaningful gobbet of this swishing around its gleaming porcelain bowl. I was going to ask to use it first, really I was - except that I think asking first is the mark of a pussy.
"ENJOY"!
Posted by: jim | October 25, 2007 at 12:09 PM