nullband

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Been working on a side project alongside music making. It’s an anonymous internet radio platform called nullband — broadcasts appear on an SDR-style waterfall display, fade when you stop.

No names, no profiles, no archive.

There’s a ghost mechanism built in — qualifying broadcasts get processed and reappear later at a harmonic frequency, degraded and transformed. Listeners can also blend up to four simultaneous signals in 3D headphone space using HRTF.

Been using it as a performance tool myself — streaming from an iPad rig running AUM, field recordings, granular stuff. Curious if anyone here wants to try transmitting.

I’ll leave the rest for you to discover.

https://nullband.org

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I don’t know that I would have time to use it regularly, but I’d love to see it. It sounds like a great idea.

As an amateur radio operator I’ve incorporated radio samples from both scanners and SDRs in to my work.

Your idea shows a lot of promise!

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Thanks. Yes I loop KiwiSDR through Blackhole and incorporate that into my ambient stuff. I only just discovered SDR etc.

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Super interesting, thx! Any possibility to stream for non-apple users?

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That’s something I haven’t seen before. Do I understand it’s sort of amateur radio band, but then via Internet streaming service? I’m not much in amateur radio things, but that’s interesting. I think right now I’m listening to some middle-east oriented streamer :slight_smile:

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I can potentially add cool mic or Broadcast myself to the list of additions. They are the same as Izicast to my understanding. I will look into it.

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It’s a visual replica of sorts from amateur radio bands. No real radio wave connections. I just thought the waterfall view was an interesting way of being able to see multiple streams at once, select them and combine them.

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your site says iziCast is free, but it’s $9.99… any alternatives?

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I’ve checked, you’re correct.

Apologies for the confusion. I assumed there was a free tier and a paid tier, which is common with most apps. I primarily use BUTT on desktop; while streaming works on mobile, it’s really designed for desktop-based broadcasting and music transmission.

I’ll review some alternative options.

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Really cool tool :slight_smile: I’ve tried streaming a few times from Mac via Butt - very easy to setup and enjoyed the experience. It’s fun to play music with that extra intention that other people may be tuning in :sparkles:

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i might give this a try at some point. could become Elektronauts audio streaming platform :smiley_cat:

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My intention is that it is mostly performance based and the fact that others could “tune” in gives the performance a little more focus. Really anything goes as long as it not commercial / licensed music.

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Live right now if anyone wants to tune in, routing NASA Artemis II mission audio through my ambient rig and broadcasting it on nullband. Granular processing, piano layered on top.

Disappears when I stop.

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Probably my fault but I only get a wide variety of static noise, independently on where I click/scroll.

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This idea gives me strong “this is what the internet was meant to be” vibes, in the best way possible. And the minimal aesthetics are spot on.

Broadcasting jams would indeed being that extra spice that someone might be listening. Like a public practice, but without bothering anybody.

Questions: is the noise just randomly generated? Do the intermittent artefacts we see actually sound like anything or are they just visual candy?

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Depends if someone is transmitting at the time, if you see a vertical line click on it. It will buffer for around 5 secs and start.

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Noise is random, little bits of glitch are also random candy.

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I have absolutely no clue what this is supposed to do.
I only get different flavors of static, what am I missing?

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It seems that no-one is transmitting. So it is in effect a simulation of a shortwave radio in a world where everything has gone dark. I guess if a few people connect streams it might be interesting? Though it’s hard in their absence to understand in what way :smile: As it is I’m wondering whether I might simply record ten minutes of it and submit it as a particularly austere contribution to the drone challenge…

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