The sound of power lines

Me and my friend are recording the sound generated by the high voltage(400kV) powerline, in this case located in Porjus, a small swedish village north of the arctic circle. The sound is recorded with special contact elements, mounted in different ways on the pylon. Different sounds is heard depending on the national power consumption, but the nature itself also influence the timbre. Wind, birds and insects can be heard on the recordings. Note that this movie contains four passages of sounds. You will probably need headphones or a good sound system to hear the impact of the sound.
For more information about this project, please visit www.nilsjc.com/kraft/kraft_intro.html

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Music

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• power
• line
• sound
• high
• voltage
• electricity
• porjus
• nils
• edvardsson
• fredrik
• norrgren
• meai
• björn
• norberg

[mackjsm]

No Way!! That is freaky... its like death is waiting..

[NeCtRiCkS]

awesoome

[clnmyjts]

I did powerline clearance work and never heard the power lines sound like this....this noise is the vibration ringing in the tower frame constuction AND you would have to stick your ear right on the metal towers or use a microphone recording device to pick up this kind of sound effect ( standing right under the wires inbetween the spans listing to the power line wiresnoise is a totally different buzzing noice )

[myUf0]

If some of this sound remember you star wars or any other sciens fiction movie is not casualty , in the 80's I saw a tv program and they was showing how this sound effects was recorded and some of them are from power lines like this ones ,many thanks for this video and go a head with this job L.O.L. From London...

[LookAmongTheHeavens]

lol all this has gone 2 far

[3rdeye15]

is that Henrick Sedin from the Vanouver Canauks @ 4:28? lol

[HorizonDelta]

Kool !

[forwardbias]

There is a musical instrument called a water bow or something that makes similar noises. It consists of high tension metal wires, strung from the top part of the instrument to the bottom. There are several wires that radiate out from the center. Its made completely of metal, and you fill the middle chamber with water that the top wires are attached to. When you rub a mallet on the wires, it makes unique sounds, because of resonance of the vibrations.

[forwardbias]

I love that sound, would be something to loop, while making a timelapse video of flying through the solar system or something. Those lines are insulated from the metal towers they are on, so they are safe. Otherwise the lines would short into the ground. Something very cool to do under lines like that is to take 48 inch fluorescent light tubes. There is enough EMF from high tension lines to make the tubes glow quite noticibly.

[N3anderthaler]

This sound is caused by corona discharge.

Google CONDUCTOR CORONA NOISE PREDICTION ON HIGH VOLTAGE AC LINES or also very interesting HIGH SPEED DIGITAL PROTECTION OF EHV TRANSMISSION LINES USING TRAVELING WAVES.

[Mypsychedelicart]

Scary as shit.

[trancelistic]

@YTSE1988 I so agree:).