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NULLBAND is a live, anonymous, networked sound work. Anyone in the world can transmit sound into it, with no name and no account, and on a desktop up to eight live signals are blended into a single continuous stream for anyone to hear.

Every signal is then returned to the world over a series of progressively eroded generations through fidelity loss, reverb and compression, until the final generation is little more than noise. Then it is deleted. No recordings are kept. One signal behaves differently: a reflection, when it qualifies it returns at once, reversed and half-decayed. Attention alters what survives.

The result is a constantly shifting field of anonymous sound, made by everyone and no one, that remembers imperfectly and ultimately forgets. NULLBAND is a meditation on memory, anonymity, and impermanence. In an age when almost everything is recorded and kept, a system built to let go.

https://nullband.org/

If you want to broadcast a live session anonymously, nullband is worth knowing about.

It’s an anonymous broadcast platform built on Icecast. Signals appear on an SDR-style waterfall display when you transmit and fade when you stop. No accounts, no names. Multiple people can broadcast simultaneously and listeners on desktop can blend up to 8 signals at once in 3D headphone space using HRTF spatial audio.

Qualifying transmissions return later, processed and degraded, cycling through generations until the signal is gone.

Desktop via BUTT, iOS via iziCast. Free token at nullband.org/transmit, no account required.

https://nullband.org/

Drone Day is May 30. If you want to broadcast your session anonymously, as usual nullband will be open all day.

nullband is an anonymous transmission platform. Signals appear on a waterfall display and fade when you stop. No account, no name.

Multiple people can broadcast simultaneously.

Going to seed drone transmissions in the days leading up to it so the ghost chain is already running deep by the time May 30 arrives.

Desktop via BUTT, iOS via iziCast. Free token at nullband.org/transmit and you’re live in minutes.

There will also be a simulcast YouTube live window 10.00 AM UTC

https://youtu.be/pTf93Eq_VX0

In Conversations it sounds like a +12 octave effect on his vocal or is just a double he has done and octave above ?

nullband is an anonymous transmission platform. there are no profiles, no names.

signals appear on the waterfall for the duration of a transmission and fade when it ends.

the waterfall display shows active transmissions as vertical signals on a frequency spectrum. each band of colour represents a transmission from somewhere in the world.

nullband is an anonymous transmission platform. there are no profiles, no names.

signals appear on the waterfall for the duration of a transmission and fade when it ends.

the waterfall display shows active transmissions as vertical signals on a frequency spectrum. each band of colour represents a transmission from somewhere in the world.

head to nullband.org on desktop for the full experience and tune in to hear what is transmitting right now.

nullband is an anonymous transmission platform. there are no profiles, no names.

signals appear on the waterfall for the duration of a transmission and fade when it ends.

the waterfall display shows active transmissions as vertical signals on a frequency spectrum. each band of colour represents a transmission from somewhere in the world.

head to nullband.org on desktop for the full experience and tune in to hear what is transmitting right now.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ahBRQU8kaYw

nullband is an anonymous transmission platform. there are no profiles, no names.

signals appear on the waterfall for the duration of a transmission and fade when it ends.

the waterfall display shows active transmissions as vertical signals on a frequency spectrum. each band of colour represents a transmission from somewhere in the world.

head to nullband.org on desktop for the full experience and tune in to hear what is transmitting right now.

https://nullband.org/

live now on 27756

CELLSEQ driving VCV Rack

Looking at using MeshCore to log telemetry data to CSV for a generative music project. Packet metadata like RSSI, SNR, hop count, GPS, temperature, light gets fed into a sequencer as a live data source.

Is there a Python SDK or API for MeshCore equivalent to Meshtastic’s Python library? And how does the depth of accessible telemetry data compare?

Trying to work out if MeshCore exposes the same fields or more before committing to a device.

I make generative music and I’m looking at using incoming packet metadata (RSSI, SNR, hop count, battery etc) as a live data source feeding a midi sequencer.
Possible ??

The anonymity and ephemerality of the protocol is what got me interested in the first place.

Just getting into the hardware, looking at the Heltec V4 to start.

Anyone else using Meshtastic in a musical or generative art context? Curious what people have tried.

Built a sequencer that plays spreadsheets as MIDI.
I call it CELLSEQ.

Drop any CSV onto a grid.

The data becomes the sequence. Numbers fire notes and jump forward by their value. Letters redirect the cursor. Empty cells are freeways.

No programming. No manual sequencing.
The dataset has a melody already, this just reveals it.

Been running Kaggle datasets, work data, sleep/stress surveys through it. Each one sounds completely different.

Sent a few sessions live last night at https://nullband.org/

Happy to explain how it works if anyone’s interested.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Still a WIP and I may make it available one day.