The Conet Project
The Conet Project collects recordings from "number stations" on shortwave radio: transmissions from secret agents to their agencies that code espionage reports in one-time pad codes.
They're completely without any inherent meaning, given that they're just crackly spoken strings of numbers, letters, and tones. I find them sort of calming to listen to, coded messages sent off into the ether, a
Derridean post-card that may or may not have ever arrived for its recipient. And (bonus) Disc 1, Track 4 seems to be the "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" track
sampled heavily in Wilco's album of the same name [pitchfork review].
The downloadable collection of .mp3 versions at
archive.org includes an 80-page (pdf) booklet and track notes.
Posted by johndan at November 7, 2004 11:03 PM
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