Numbers stations are shortwave radio stations of uncertain origin. They generally broadcast voices reading streams of numbers, words, letters (sometimes using a radio alphabet), tunes or morse code. - Wikipedia This is a collaborative piece with Ben Walker as part of the Contextual Villains Collaborative. www.thecontextualvillains.org The audio track is compiled from two samples of number station broadcasts. One layer is of a woman sounding out numbers at random in Polish, another of a man speaking Russian. I used a segment of Steve Reich’s ‘Sextet (Part III) with Members of Nexus’ and finally an abstract sound scape I made using Reason v4.
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Anyone else think this may be the govenment’s perfect cover-up of their contact with and proof of aliens and this spy theory is just a distraction? Hm? Maybe Im just over thinking…
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Most of them transmit 24/7. I’d do it during daylight hours though…
and whatever you do, dont try the backwards music station!
My fav is UVB-76.
@squeegee77 They know the location of UVB 76 though, and its still considered a numbers station.
@0Oo0OlollaO0o0O They are shortwave radio stations from unknown spots broadcasting these signals of letters or tones or whatever. The guess is that they are for sending messages to spies. Wikipedia has a good article about them
will someone please try and explain to me what the numbers stations are? they freak me out!
True.
man speaking Polish, 100%.
This is really interesting, i’m also attempting something similiar using reason 4, only a bit more structured.
Tbh I only watched this cos im looking for some creepy samples to steal
good stuff though. I really enjoy this kind of eerie ambience.
btw im not russian im just learning it at school… and i suck at it
woman is speaking in russian im 100% sure because in the end you can clearly hear her saying numbers
OK, now I’m sure that a man is speaking Polish, and a women is speaking Czech .
I hear there a few languages (minimum 2). One of them is Polish for sure.
No no no, it is Macedonian language
that would be awesome , i learned it not cryptography it’s stenography , silly me
If anyone ever admits to publicly owning a Cipher to a Numbers Station, we might be able to learn something about them!
i suppose if they are covert government broadcasts it stands to reason governments cannot admit that’s what they are, but the statments given do not suggest they have nothing to do with them either. so therefore I guess it’s tacitly implied that they are secret broadcasts… so it’s kind of acknowledged without about being acknowldged.
number stations are one of the few genuine mysteries… might they be like crop circles though? whilst they may originate from cold war/spy correspondence some now must be hoaxes transmitted by radio enthusiasts?
fuck this im lookin at porn
What I love about the mystery of numbers stations is the fact that someone sat down and recorded their voice especially for them at some point. It adds a human aspect.
wow , a cipher key , awesome
A good explanation but not entirely accurate. Many number stations have been decoded due to the reuse of one-time pads. It does not require a special receiver. The spy, or intended recipient gets the same radio sample that anyone else tuning in gets. It takes the pad or key to decode it, which if obtained, can be deciphered with any shortwave receiver.
Part of the old cold war radio network
it uses a form of cryptography that hides messages in an audio sample , the messages are repeat as sequence of number call outs or the time read outs with the hidden message encoded in a form of algorithmic cross wave sampling , only a spy with the right receiver can decode it , same kind of thing they do with the radio headers that display the stations name on digital radios ,
i’ve just found an cheap Aiwa tape player/radio with shortwave on it, whats the best time to listen to some number stations and what frequencies?
That is really great. Bits of it made me think of a Stan Brackage film. Nicely creepy!
probably ways for governments to transmit messages to spies or agents in other countries. That seems like the most down to earth answer anyways.