SOMA Ether: The Hidden World of Electro-Magnetic Fields
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- In which I take the new SOMA Ether electro-magnetic field microphone for a spin in Berlin, uncovering hidden sounds from streets, subways and zeppelins.
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Filming: Nicolas Käppner using a OnePlus6T
Recording: Ether into Sony PCM-D100, no FX used.
Thx: graemesalmo for the great quote on the SOMA radio.
"Hey mom, I'm going out today with Uncle H." "Okay - are you going to the sports ground to play soccer?" "No, he wants me to film him recording ambient electro-magnetic fields in the urban environment." "That's nice dear - you boys have fun now!"
Yeah well, I wish I could tell you my mom was suprised😶
i adore this comment in a way that a simple thumbs-up can't edify, thank you for sharing
A sunny day, electromagnetic fields.
How did you hook it up to the recorder and what recorder did you use? :)
P.S. Greetings from Poland! I enjoy your channel and love your music, would be so cool to hear it as a score to a film/animation project. Take care!
@@wm2922 it has a normal headphone output and it looks like he is using a portable digital recorder (like a zoom or something), you can see it in the video :) The website for SOMA says you need at least 1m long cable between them.
Electromagnetic fields forever! A Beatles cover, produced entirely using soubds recorded on this device would be hella cool.
This is the auditory version of Roddy Piper's sunglasses.
@@johncaccioppo1142 OBEY Hainbach
5:24 Hainbach desperately trying to signal the mothership to bring him back to his home planet.
Signalling the Zeppelin
The train passing gave me more goosebumps than a THX intro.
lol
Exactly!
1:49 timestamp
I wonder if someone on the train recognized you and thought "What kind of crazy crap is Hainbach up to now?"
I like to imagine that all over Germany, people are very happy doing strange things with no need or want to explain themselves to surrounding public.
Yes, it's like the default interpretation by the public is that someone intelligent is doing something worthwhile and interesting or even essential. Try that in Canada or the US, walking around with an unidentifiable electronic gizmo and waving it at a subway car. 'He's stealing my credit card data!!' etc.
Germany is not what you imagine 😂
If this had been the US he could've potentially been face slammed into the ground and called a terrorist.
@@reggiep75 Yeah, they especially hate long hair and beards...
its like this, i mean people so stare sometimes but its not annoying
tons of electronic music/gear stuff on RUclips but your stuff always shines through with a warmth, generosity and curiosity and manages to teach and inspire, ,and always puts me in a better mood. Bravo and thanks again.
Just imagine, how every day we walk in the world of inaudible sound. This device is basically a sneak peek into another dimension.
Also it'd be awesome to be able to see EM waves. I mean, light is an EM wave, all we need is just to extend our vision a little bit, and we'll be seeing wi-fi, radio, all that stuff. But the sound is great too.
The trick is, with lower and lower frequencies the "pixels" of any camera for them would need to be larger and larger to effectively see those frequencies, in a way large arrays of radio telescopes are actually a low rez radio camera.
But I do agree, being able to see Infrared, Ultraviolot, and the mid to high microwave frequencies in the same way we see light would be amazing.
Perhaps radio frequencies and electro magnetic fields are a better addition to our hearing, especially since 20hz to 20khz in Radio frequency not only matches up with the range our ears can hear, but have quite a few interesting things going on in that range alone!
- What do you do?
- I make Drone Ambient music.
- Cool! And how do you play it?
- Well, I take a walk in town
Sound about right!!! :P
Wow. I loved the sound of the globe/fluorescent lights in the subway...
So many cool soundscapes. Who knew trains were polyphonic?
Goes to show how much of our world we're missing out on with just our current natural senses huh?
I use mine daily, if you touch it to different metals you pick up some really strong signals like radio station's and electric pulses. My favourite is going near electrical pylons or mobile phone towers. Also check out near an airport such great sounds. Thank you for sharing your amazing video's.
i think the freuquencies that you hear from the berlin subway are the same that you also hear with your ears when the train arrives at the station. instant throwback to the times ive visited berlin
Yea, the old old trams in Halle have the exact same sound on their loudspeakers when they are going around corners. They must be picking up the interference from the tram just like the soma did from the U/S-Bahn.
The train sounded like one of those old toy air organs from the 60's and 70's! Very cool tones!
and funnily also quite similar to the sound of the doors on that subway train, when they close.
This is soo interesting!!! I confess I want one. Bad. Great work man... Your content is so deep and personal. And you tickle my geek underbelly. You're doing a stratospherically good job. Respect.
Thank you Dr, means a lot coming from a colleague!
When your two heroes just meet in an unespectedly awesome way... love you both guys, actually my biggest musical ispirations❤
Cheers from italy
Oh, I’m getting one of these ASAP. Amazing!
Love the sheer delight on Heinbach’s face as he discovers all these sounds. So cool.
There are many RUclips channels that feature magnet fishing: however, I wager that your channel is one of few that features magnetic field fishing.
pretty unexpected results! unlimited horror score potential!
Some amazing sounds. I particularly liked the lamps. And who would have thought that cobblestones were actually doing Mongolian throat singing?
Great video,
I find the Soma Ether something magnificent,
I'm waiting for mine to arrive,
I can't wait to try it here in Rome!
🎶🛸🎶
Your new device really does sound way better. I loved the sounds you picked up from the overhead lights in the subway station.
Yeah, they had such a lovely depth & intensity !
When you recorded this airship, you also recorded some Polish radio station and news. :)
Yep, it was a weather forecast followed by some news.
It's astounding that energy surrounds us city dwellers all the time. You looked like a sound-sniffing detective out those cobblestones. Those subway lights sounded especially beautiful to me!
This sounds a lot more interesting than I was expecting! Has a surprising amount of musical potential, especially chopping this up and sequencing the sounds!
That shot at 2:32 looked awesome, the train moving made me think you went back in time! :^)
Hainbach should do audiobooks or voiceover work. His voice is so relaxing!
This creates a new noise sub genre, its so damn cool!
I think maybe John Cage started off this genre...
dude, I saw that zeppelin too! definitely not an everyday thing to watch. awesome idea to make the electro magnetic fields, which are all around us, audible. greetz from berlin to berlin!
I'm so glad you did a piece on this gadget. Saw their Kickstarter video and fell in love with it. Went right on the wishlist.
Your nephew is an amazing photographer, the train and zeppelin shots were awesome.... Ordered an Ether today ;)
This is surprisingly beautiful😍 would love to do an concept album with this walking through different parts of different cities and capturing their sound
This could even be a world wide collaboration! You should get people all over the world involved.
The look of joy and wonder on your face is delightful. Thank you.
That guy at the end is just so freakin' cool.
Hainbiiiii
Added bonus: Great for you next interpretive rendering of Cage's "Imaginary Landscape No. 4"
train sounded amazing, it reminds me of a device a friend had that could read the rf signals from crt tubes in a few buildings away, and could replicate what they where looking at.
This + some drums and bass = atmospheric video game / grunge soundtrack in a box.
Leaving it on my wishlist :)
love your reaction at 2:41 !!
Great video! Always fascinating how the world around us would appear if our senses could feel and receive the whole spectrum of wavelenghts and fields, for light, sound and electromagnetism. The world how we perceive it through the interpretation of sensorial input by our brain is quite a narrow range.
thanks hainbach i now have anxiety
that smirk @2:39! how glorious!
This Ether is so cool! Can't wait to get mine. Thank you for sharing your explorations with it, very interesting as usual!
After sitting a bit on the fence about it for a while, and also having got more and more into making ambient/concrète/experimental music lately, I finally ordered myself one of these after watching this video. The videos I have seen before of the Ether in use were not nearly as convincing as this one.
im literally speechless those sounds you captured are so organic its unreal
If you pause and zoom in closely to the ZF Blimp, you’ll see on the side it reads: “Hainbach’s a Pimp!”
😜Field Recording EM noise in the sunny park...even Ice Cube would concur, “It was A Good Day”✅👌🏻💯
I had to order one. Thanks for the post! I was about to make my own, but the depth of sound you got out of this was way worth the price.
Thanks for the reminder. Two telephone coil pickups from ebay arrived in the post a few weeks ago, but I had forgotten what I ordered them for :)
This is music to my ears. Beaitiful. Thanks for sharing this.
*beautiful
that train passing by at 2:00 is worth every penny
Awesome, and that with the airship was incredible.
Omg! Hainbach! Your find is totally rad! Those sounds!
It does sound much better than my RFI detector (hand held AM sports radio tuned away from channels).
The Ether works like an untuned Radio. I broke some cheap radios just to find out how to get the signal around the tuning parts. 🤔😆
That's very cool way to add some interesting sounds to the track.
Great video as always! I have my Ether pre-ordered. Hopefully it will come soon!
Cool stuff! Already made test sounds with the Soma Ether! It's fun!
I'm surprised by the variety of the sounds!
For the people caring about waving this device and others finding it weird: i'm 36 and lets say 20 years ago people would find you very weird and nerdy if you were busy with a minicomputer always and everywhere (smartphone) :D
This I awesome! An incredible range of tone.
Ordered one midway through your excellent video - thank you.
so awesome. def on the list
Still waiting on mine. Some of the sounds are just awe inspiring and alive yet scary.
Very, very interesting. I have always wondered what the effects of electromagnetic pollution has on the human brain and this video shows an astounding abundance of signals everywhere. I'm sure the amplitude of individual items aren't enough for cause for concern, but this video shows that being in a small area subjects a person to multiple sources at once. I wonder what the cumulative effect is compared to none at all. Cheers, Hainbach!
You're the man Hainbach
3:36 Hello Autechre
It was just a matter of time before a pre-made, self contained electromagnetic radiation detector was produced. This one sounds excellent, and the choice of location is perfect.
Nineteen years ago my music partner and I did a piece called, unsurprisingly, 'EMR', part of a series of albums exploring radio signals and electromagnetic radiation phenomena using different equipment to detect and process it. For this one we used a guitar pickup encased in plastic - I think it was polyurethane - attached to leads that we put into a preamp on the mixer, and we explored the space and recorded it, and then processed the audio in real time with DSPs that had parameters controlled by a volume pedal and various knobs. The guitar pickup sounded quite good.
Soma is one of the most creative gear makers ever
This is incredible. I use coil pickups all the time, but they're not as sensitive, so something like this would be really handy.
This sounds absolutely amazing
neat. for the record, people who use telephone coil feature on hearing aids are actually hearing this exact EMF thing
How practical is it for recording? Do you need a second person and lengthy cable to avoid capturing the EM from your recording device at all times?
This is wonderful, even if only for listening to myself in real-time. Thank you very much for bringing it to my attention: I am sold!
I had the recorder in my left pocket and held the Ether in my right hand. No problems.
Great, and thanks for the quick reply. My partner and I are recent subscribers to your channel and watch your stuff all the time. Thanks for the channel, it's fantastic.
More of this kind of stuff pls :O
This was so mind blowing!!!
this is just beautiful, I need one!
If you do more on this, I'd love some explanation of what we're actually hearing. My rudimentary understanding of EMF is that any given point has an intensity and direction. It's not obvious to me how that's being translated into an audio signal. Did your DIY box use the same method as the Ether, just with a more limited sensitivity?
Great again!
Hi Stefan,
It seems like I was not the only one who was listening to the sound of fluorescent lamps in the childhood. Basically I was doing the same, just used the input of my portable cassette player as an EM antenna. I was doing quite some other crazy stuff as well, like: I turned the old transistor into a simple photodiode, and then listened to the sound of the LIGHT :) While bright things do not sound much, you still can nicely listen to things like - different kinds of lamps/light bulbs, candles, even stars if you use a simple mono/binocular or something more powerful. Maybe this can be an idea for your next sound experiment? :)
B.t.w, I live in München, so if you will find my ideas interesting too, it will be a pleasure for me to meet you in person or just talk.
MfG,
Stanislav
That was an interesting contraption!
I saw Jerome Noetinger from Paris playing live with that kind of stuff And also Revox looped tape . Amazing work . Have a look 👍🏻👍🏻
The lamps in the subway = my favorite 🎼
Oh, wow. It's one thing to know you're constantly surrounded by EM and RF radiation; it's another thing entirely to hear what that sounds like. (1:02 turns out it sounds pretty awesome)
I imagine it'd be fun to experiment with it in a controlled environment as well, perhaps setting up some kind of "beams" from lights of different strengths, adjusting things like the beam rate and so on to make rhythm, or anything else.
This is actually amazing!
Bought mine here in moscow few weeks ago. Need to explore more.
Good to see this, I ll order one alongside my lyra 8! Soma labs are great
very creative ideas & sounds ,,,,,,,,,greetings Renee
Not sure what I'd use one of these for but I really feel like I need one now.
Hi, what are the lowest and the highest freuquencies you have ever recorded with this EM reciever? I am curious about the ability of getting the lowest frequencies and do you have any idea or experience on what kind of locations or places in the city you can get these low EM frequencies? Thank you for your info and for this video, I have enjoyed watching it!
Well, I'm 2 years late, but I can verify that it can "hear" tones as low or lower than a house's 50/60 Hertz electrical system easily even at great distances, or pick up some ear-achingly high pitched tones that might make you recoil away from them.
It seems to cover at least the 20hertz to 20,000hertz range that humans can here quite well, and remember that the EMF it's "translating" is in the same 20hertz to 20,000hertz range of electromagnetic/radio waves, but I'd bet with a recorder that can sample at a high enough rate (96Khz or higher) you could slow down the recording afterwards to hear higher frequency signals above our hearing range, or speed up the recording playback (and probably use a low pass filter) to hear any frequencies below our range of hearin, been meaning to test both with my own unit
Now we just need some ghost chasers to pick this gadget up for some EVP recordings
Great sounds!
Whoa! Sounds so cool!
this sounded insane!!!
It's very interesting to me that this is the most popular synthesiser item on Thomann, I would have thought this is an insanely niche product.
It's non musical uses for just *exploring* the strange EMF soundscapes around us probably increases its appeal well beyond experimental music, I certainly love mine in both regards, honestly sakes me want to save up for more of Soma's bizzar and unique gear
I just found your channel a few days ago. Already a happy subscriber. Amazing sounds. I like that you had the intuition to go into the subway. What would it sound like being in the outer atmospheres? Greetings from Ontario.
If you don't know it yet, check out the promo video from the SOMA website.
He went to the Moscow subway(?) and recorded amazing stuff there as well.
Vlad (or whoever recorded) also used the little metal pin to connect to rails an shit to get even more sounds.
Copied the link for you :ruclips.net/video/BdiGn0LPMPs/видео.html
But don't blame me for Gear Acquisition Syndrome
@@milztempelrowski9281 Thank you for the link. Some good information on the website about the pin too. Ha ha a little G.A.S. is needed now and again.
I love your channels content. excellent
This is amazing, I'm desperate to get one now
It sounded so vocal when you were recording the pavement. Almost like some kind of chant
Like Tuvan throat singing...
Definitely don't ever show this to one of those wifi power meter conspiracy idiots. They'll go Howard Hughes insane.
That train sound though!
From around 4:40 you picked up polish weather forecast lol
Very interesting!
Weird, how musical it all sounds. Pretty harmonious for some random frequencies flying in the air
the inventor is very clever :)
Ah great, another thing I need now!