most recent 30 from http://socialsounddesign.com 2013-05-23T22:01:25Z http://socialsounddesign.com/feeds/question/6497 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/rdf http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/6497/scanner-radio-transmission-fans-out-there Syndicate Synthetique 2011-03-13T09:50:39Z 2012-08-05T16:19:49Z

<p>I recently found this amazing site that mixes a live feed of carefully selected ambient music tracks from soundcloud with police scanner chatter from several cities (only one city at a time) that sounds so unbelieveably lush and just utterly and amazingly beautiful. It's almost creepy how well this actually works together.</p> <p>It came to my attention since one of my recent ambient/cinematic pieces was chosen to be one of the featured songs and I got over 1000 plays on soundcloud within 3 days and I was wondering why/how.</p> <p>Here's the site:</p> <p><a href="http://youarelistening.to" rel="nofollow">http://youarelistening.to</a></p> <p>You can choose the city transmission that you want to feed your mix. LA, NY, Chicago, Montreal.</p> <p>I also find that it sounds really interesting if you open multiple tabs of the same location and stop the music (soundcloud player) on any/all the duplicates except the original, thus giving you multiple copies of the scanner feed (with a slight time delay on each) on top of the one single ambient song.</p> <p>I even took a bit of time to record some of the chatter with variable multitudes of instances because some of the sounds just sounded so interesting and potentially useful.</p> <p>I know when my daughter was finally old enough I kept the "baby monitors" we used to listen in on her when she was sleeping just in-case I ever possibly needed them for some "worldizing" or any signal processing that they might be appropriate for. I've actually been able to use them a few times to great results. </p> <p>I've also heard some great stories of people actually having things transmitted through radio transmissions (like Walter Murch for THX 1138) so they can re-record it for the "worldized" and unpredictable results.</p> <p>Hopefully some of you have some interesting stories about related things. Please share.</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/6497/scanner-radio-transmission-fans-out-there/6503#6503 Rene 2011-03-13T17:09:29Z 2011-03-13T17:09:29Z

<p>that really is beautiful. nice find!</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/6497/scanner-radio-transmission-fans-out-there/6504#6504 Colin Hunter 2011-03-13T17:54:23Z 2011-03-13T17:54:23Z

<p>Nice! Thanks for sharing!</p>

http://socialsounddesign.com/questions/6497/scanner-radio-transmission-fans-out-there/14932#14932 Mark Durham 2012-08-05T16:19:49Z 2012-08-05T16:19:49Z

<p>Really nice. Thanks. </p> <p>Seems they've increased the number of cities available too. I wonder if the police radio operators know they're being listened to in this way and what they think of it?</p> <p>On the radio worldizing tip, these days you can buy weak FM transmitters designed for use with your Ipod in the car - <a href="http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/portable-audio/best-fm-transmitter-for-iphone-ipod-5-on-test-1035323" rel="nofollow">this sort of thing</a>. Useful.</p>