And,
by the way, there have been some tests lately, there's a recording
called "An Eighty-Foot Wire" or "Music By a Long Thin Wire"–I thought
this was a joke recording. It's an eighty-foot wire, they strung an
eighty-foot wire out and they played a single tone through it and then
they recorded it, but the eighty-foot wire did a single oscillation. The
oscillation never varies. The oscillation [is] absolutely steady, the
pulsations fed through the wire. And they recorded four LP sides, that
wire creates the most incredibly beautiful sounds you've ever heard. And
it doubled back, the sound[s] would come back and overlay each other,
and there will be intervals of exquisite beauty. This is just an
eighty-foot wire.
-Philip K. Dick, January 10, 1982.
