Sound Mirrors - Disinformation "Blackout"

[ThelemicLaboratory]

93

this is rad

93 93/93

[pontepolentepontepi]

!!!

[32stardust]

like it

[wonderfulfuckyou]

Excellent! I hope you continue the work, it seems to be in an experimental phase although it's ambience is still resonating.

[carolinesimone]

how much do i like your work then... inspiring THANK YOU

[SaraMUSt]

O_o

[bootheavy]

This would have been a better site for Pink Floyd instead of Pompeii.

[C4eye]

Funny you should mention that - check out the article in "Sound Projector" magazine (issue 10 page 138) about the influence artist Gustav Metzger's work had on the imagery of Pink Floyd's "The Wall"

[Intosia]

So these mirrors make this sound? If so thats awesome!

[C4eye]

No mate they pick up sound :)

[Intosia]

Yeah, so like they pickup THAT sound?? Of is just for visual stuff.. Must be the second :P

[C4eye]

The were designed to pick up the sound of attacking Zeppelins etc

[bootheavy]

So in this instance, where is the source of this sound. Understand that the sound is being bounced off of the bowls, but what is actually producing the sound? A taped source? Some kind of sound generator?

[C4eye]

The source of the sound were the engines of enemy aircraft, Zeppelins and even ships attacking the UK coast

[MarkHarmer]

HI - I think bootheavy was asking about the actual sound you hear on the soundtrack of the video - is that just a faked sound (presumably!).

[C4eye]

No, it's not "fake", but it's not a location recording either (it's a collage of human voice, violin, and electric guitar loops that shift against each other in a very long cyclic rotations). One thing that some people found hard to accept was that that sound mirrors themselves are no more acoustically exciting than any other concrete wall, people had built it up in their minds that they must somehow generate interesting sound, which they don't, any more than any other form of microphone

[BobForehead]

can any of them be used as sound cannons? the more acute ones look like mere shotgun-mic type parabolas, but perhaps with a little glaze and a good horn...

[C4eye]

The army did experiment with exploding charges inside the mirrors with a view to concentrating explosive shock waves (nb: this idea is not a "sound" cannon as such) but it didn't work

[BobForehead]

they should have done a little research into the critical resonant harmonics of zeppelins, i guess.

[000YellowFang000]

I need to get better speakers, I could barely hear it.

[C4eye]

there's some serious bass in here, try headphones :)

[Loungedieguz]

Beautiful, very nice & relaxant music. Very interesting where is the place?

[Twilightfall]

It is the world war one acoustic sound mirrors in kent.

[niueors]

Also Teeside + North Yorkshire :)

[DrPhillofthefuture]

wow I saw those on a ww2 program, Methinks it would be fun to sit in one all day for a job :)

[K5KJ]

Interesting. I had never heard of these before.

I have an old 8 foot diameter satellite TV dish and had considered placing a microphone at the focal point to see what would happen. Has anyone tried this?

[mattysfx]

how random, there two minutes away from my house!

[stardomee]

There was a TV program about England a couple of days ago that included this topic in it. Before that program I had no idea even of their existence, let alone what they were built for!

[armaneasyrepair]

Wicked, thanks

[GordoCabrona]

destined to become another stone henge

[mikongo]

mmmm.its a shame the issue of plagarism has reared its ugly head do you think bubble house- one of my favorites was influencd by a previous projec? please contact me and we can talk more.

[iam4evrsmrt]

wow what are they?

[C4eye]

The sound mirrors are concrete parabolic dishes, now ruined, 20 to 30 feet in diameter (and in one case a 200 foot curved / parabolic wall) which were used to triangulate the source of sounds produced by Zeppelins, planes and ships that might attack the UK coast. The system was an experimental (and ultimately unsuccessful) acoustic precursor to radar, built by the UK military.

[Twilightfall]

Whare can i get this sound or vid? Can you buy it or download it anywhere? I think this is really cool.

[C4eye]

There's been some talk of Threshold Studios publishing a Disinformation DVD, but no immediate plans as of yet  :)

[dyspraxia]

beautiful