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obviously i wasn't driving, but wtf... bauri * underjord.net -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: m. abrahamsson <bauri@techno.org> Till: insulting disco mice <idm@hyperreal.org> Datum: den 17 april 1999 19:51 Ämne: SV: (idm) (I)nteresting (D)riving (M)oment huh guess i've experienced this too many years ago while playing Ice Climber and vacuuming the house at the same time. some strange sounds were generated in between the noise and the melody. can't really grasp what this sounded like because my NES is now long time gone. :( np:Arovane/Icol Vern bauri

Excerpts from mail: 18-Apr-99 idm-digest V2 #623 by idm-digest@hyperreal.org

quoted 10 lines If anyone has even been through the "neon tunnel" in chicago's O'Hare

> If anyone has even been through the "neon tunnel" in chicago's O'Hare > airport they can relate to this one: I was running to catch my flight > home (Grand Rapids, MI), when I happened into the tunnel. As I rode the > moving walkway everything seemed to sync perfectly: the > bleepy computer generated music, the flashing of the neon lighting above > my head, the drone of the crowd, and the synthetic "please watch you step" > emitted by the walkway. I was completely amazed, and must have looked like > an idiot gazing at the ceiling in total bliss. Once I > was out of the tunnel, I cursed myself for not having a mini cassette > recorder. It was too cool.

Hehe. A few months ago I had a layover in O'hare at some horrible time like 4-6 AM. I had to change terminals, so I passed through one of those tunnels. At the end of each walkway there was a recording playing back "The moving walkway is nearing its end. Please watch your step" or something to that effect; however the acoustics of the tunnel accentuated only the two syllables "ing wa". And since it was 4 am, there was practically no one there so it was echoing down the tunnel... So as I passed down the tunnel, all I heard was weird progression of echoing "ing wa.. ing wa..." and the weird lights and bleepy music... It have just been the fact that I was really sleepy-groggy at 4 AM, but it was _really_ trippy at the time. :) It would have been cool to get a recording of it though, thats for sure. aronne.

Since that thread just apparently touched a chord in a lot of people, these sonically amusing moments shouldn't be allowed to get by. I think all IDM listers should just mandatorily be equipped with a small DAT recorder and mic, left on at all times. Then, kind of like the 'America's Funniest Home Videos' tv show with bits of random people's video recordings, you'd have the 'IDM's IDMiest Found Sounds' on a radio show. Well, I'd listen to it. ---- "According to the law of primogeniture this moon-cheese is mine. The UN? Ha! I spit on the UN!" [Pokey the Penguin] 5678>> http://www.pobox.com/~jpitrman/