I like hooking my computer to the access point of my phone line with an induction loop receiver. I tape the induction loop receiver to the access point so it can read the magnetic modulations at the entry point of the phone line into the home. I connect the other end into my line-in of my computer and then I activate the Audacity program and click record. I get all sorts of radio programs all overlapping on each other. Some music and some talking and then this and that and then I play it back. It is cool listening to it, like in a disco, where the DJ mixes everything up. All these electronic sounds. You cannot recreate a piece like this. Every piece is unique. It is like listening to a John Cage CD. You never know what you get and the piece though has a title it seems to be made of chance and has no meaning to it. It’s cool.
But I would regularly hear this long whining sound that builds up and then wind down in the recording. What is that? I remember thinking. Then one day I realised it was the double decker bus passing outside my house. What!
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If a double-decker bus can get past my front door via the telephone/internet lines then what else is there coming through unseen.