Stephen P. McGreevy
Electric Enigma: The VLF Recordings of Stephen P. McGreevy (1996) ...
"Electric Enigma is a double album on which California-based artist
Stephen P. McGreevy has documented recordings he made of Natural Radio -
electromagnetic emissions in the very-low-frequency band caused by
massive discharges and their after-effects in lightning storms and by
the solar wind buffeting the earth's magnetic field, visible as Aurora
Borealis and Australis." ... archive.org
"It's rich stuff; the thing I like about it most is how effortless
it all is: Electric Enigma naturally achieves what electronic
composers have been trying to synthetically do for the past 50
years. McGreevy, in a perfect Duchampian gesture, simply reveals
to us what has always been there. Folkies, New Agers, and other
dowdy "naturalists," constantly insist that the more
electronic the culture becomes, the more estranged we are become
from nature. Electric Enigma thankfully refutes this idiotic
stance by showing us that electronics are and always have been
a large part of our natural environment." ... wfmu.org
New York Press, 1998
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