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Red Lake Radio
We
call it Red Lake Radio because it was developed for
a museum in Red Lake, Canada. The scene is 1929 in
a wilderness 200 kilometers North of Lake Superior.
On the last day of the prospecting mission, as yet
unsuccessful, a storm hits and uproots a tree right
beside the camp. Low and behold, soapstone! And where
there's soapstone, there's gold! This fairy tale event
leads to one of the biggest gold rushes ever. Bush
plane aviation was invented to service the boom town.
Red Lake was the busiest commercial airport in the
world that year, believe it or not. Our job? To create
some ambience of the boom town life while delivering
information. Solution? To set the scenes with radios
fitted out with modern technology to sound, and work
like, an old radio. Using Mp3 players mixed with on
chip sound generators the visitor tunes several channels
with noise in between channels. A nice effect, and
an electronics challenge.
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