Electric Enigma: The VLF Recordings of Stephen P. McGreevy

Stephen P. McGreevy (Author) | Format: Audio CD

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• Audio CD
• Label: Irdial
• ASIN: B001MNA752
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #836,610 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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rare, Out of Print @ CD set of Very Low Frequency recordings of the Aurora Borealis and the EMF discharges of lightning bolts bouncing and stretching through the earths magnetoshpere. Includes two 36-page booklets with detailed technical information.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Nothing Else Like It!, January 11, 2009

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This review is from: Electric Enigma: The VLF Recordings of Stephen P. McGreevy (Audio CD)

I searched this out after hearing a piece on NPR about Mr McGreevy: who traveled far North in Canada and hooked up some equipment of his own design, which utilized miles of existing barbed-wire fences as huge antennas to pick up the faint Very Low Frequency sounds of the aurora borealis (northern lights). Solar winds, distant lightning, and other atmospheric phenomena are heard here for the first time.

As both an audio enthusiast, and a space aficionado, I was immediately drawn to the strange soothing "music" - whirs, clicks, static, whistles...and the fact that someone had the thought in their head to even try such a thing (or even the fact that a record company had thought to release it)!

Granted, this is not for the casual listener. But it is marvelously unique, and a rewarding listening experience in a rather cosmic sort of way.