vastlesssmudge

The Taos Hum
(407.84 seconds)
1999

Sampled sound manipulation created using Macromedia
Soundedit 16 & an Apple McIntosh PowerPC 8600.

This track was birthed from a post-vastlesssmudge recording project called Loop Yoga, which began in 1999. After finding it not quite suitable for that project, (too vastlesssmudge like) I decided to file under it under: vastlesssmudge. Hence, The Taos Hum joins a group of new (post-1995) recordings deemed to be smudge-like which now live on my ipod under the album title: 30 Years of vastlesssmudge and will slowly be released over the next several months on this vastlesssmudge blog.

vastlesssmudge lives on.

Copyright © 1999 House of Pingting Music


The Taos Hum is a mysterious low-pitched noise that some residents of Taos, New Mexico claim to hear. More generally, the phenomenon, referred to as the Hum , has been reported from all over the world, especially in Europe. Appearently undetectable by microphones, its source and nature is still a mystery. It is believed by some that this ultra low frequency originates from a covert hidden government research laboratory, whose existence has neither been proven or disproved. Other scientists ascribe this phenomenon to naturally-occurring geological events. A variety of theories that have been advanced are reviewed in the article the Hum . The lore of this phenomenon has become part of the appeal of this unique community.

Source: Wikipedia

Photograph by Rami T.F. Rekola