On Charlotte Gainsbourg's album, IRM (produced by Beck) she uses the audio environment of the MRI scanner as musical influence.
When I was in the MRI scanner I started to get really interested in the sound. It was like some kind of crazy industrial techno punk thing, loud and abrasive, but almost sort of rhythmic and almost sort of harmonic. Gainsbourg gets it really well in this song. I knew that the noise came from the magnetic coils, but I just learned at school that it's because the coils heat up when they are turned on and so they expand & contract, creating friction with the polymer that encases them.
Cool, yeah, that nails it. I hear it sounds better if you put some of those tiny spherical rare-earth magnets from Deal Extreme in your ears. - rob (guest) 10-03-2010 7:53 pm
When I was in the MRI scanner I started to get really interested in the sound. It was like some kind of crazy industrial techno punk thing, loud and abrasive, but almost sort of rhythmic and almost sort of harmonic. Gainsbourg gets it really well in this song. I knew that the noise came from the magnetic coils, but I just learned at school that it's because the coils heat up when they are turned on and so they expand & contract, creating friction with the polymer that encases them.
- sally mckay 10-02-2010 3:42 pm
Cool, yeah, that nails it. I hear it sounds better if you put some of those tiny spherical rare-earth magnets from Deal Extreme in your ears.
- rob (guest) 10-03-2010 7:53 pm
hah!
- sally mckay 10-03-2010 8:14 pm
Oh. My. God. Did you follow the link in that post? Take the horseshoes off the horse, people.
- rob (guest) 10-03-2010 9:36 pm
I followed all the links. They're scary.
- sally mckay 10-04-2010 3:53 am