[UC-ODDMUSIC] Numbers Station Radio

[Chris Vaisvil]

An industrial piece in 17 notes per octave performed on an AXiS 49, Oxygen
25, Digitech Control 8 controlling 2 instances each of Albino, Z3ta+, and
Kontakt 4 plus session 4 drummer.

Listen online here
http://notonlymusic.com/board/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=699#p4183

download (20 megs) here
http://micro.soonlabel.com/17-ET/axis-albino2-numbers-radio-broadcast.mp3

Have a Good Day,

Chris


Background from Wikipedia

Numbers stations (or number stations) are shortwave radio stations of
uncertain origin. They generally broadcast artificially generated voices
reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a spelling
alphabet), tunes or Morse code. They are in a wide variety of languages and
the voices are usually female, though sometimes male or children's voices
are used.

Evidence supports popular assumptions that the broadcasts are used to send
messages to spies. This usage has not been publicly acknowledged by any
government that may operate a numbers station, but in 2001, the United
States tried the Cuban Five for spying for Cuba. The group had received and
decoded messages that had been broadcast from a Cuban numbers station.[1]
Also in 2001, Ana Belen Montes, a senior US Defense Intelligence Agency
analyst, was arrested and charged with espionage. The federal prosecutors
stated: "Montes communicated with the Cuban Intelligence Service through
encrypted messages and received her instructions through encrypted shortwave
transmissions from Cuba”. In 2006, Carlos Alvarez and his wife, Elsa, were
arrested and charged with espionage. The U.S. District Court Florida stated:
"defendants would receive assignments via shortwave radio transmissions”. In
June 2009, the United States similarly charged Walter Kendall Myers with
conspiracy to spy for Cuba and receiving and decoding messages broadcast
from a numbers station operated by the Cuban Intelligence Service to further
that conspiracy.[2][3]

It has been reported that the United States uses numbers stations to
communicate encoded information to persons in other countries.[1]

Numbers stations appear and disappear over time (although some follow
regular schedules), and their overall activity has increased slightly since
the early 1990s.
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