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If
it's non-magnetic metals you're generally okay.
Wow, what a challenging recording
environment! What about the light bulbs in the room? I could have sworn
I saw a variety of things that had metal on them, and I wasn't even on
vallium, I swear. Let me know what you find out.
Kris
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:03
PM
Subject: Re: The MRI and Looping: For
Ambient & Experimental Music?
I was talking with one of the techs at the hospital where I
work about this discussion. He told me that there is nothing metal in the
room. In fact if you have a tattoo, they pack it in ice because something in
the ink reacts to the high magnetism and makes it really hot. I asked about
the Microphone they have in the room and he was telling me that all the
communication wiring is done with fiber optics. I was wondering about using
a couple of contact pickups, I have a few McIntyres kicking around here, on
the door or the window and seeing what it would pickup. If I get a chance, I
can ask about it if you like.
paul
Ontario,
Canada
At 02:09 PM 12/7/2005, you wrote:
That
would be outstanding. Perhaps putting the recording in the control room of
the MRI facility and having the wires run into the room, two stereo
microphones on either side of the machine would be ideal, but that may not
be feasible. Even a basis minidisc recorder with a small stereo microphone
attached would be good enough raw material for me!
:)
Your comment about the
headphones explains why the headphones they put on me were attached to
plastic tubing that ran to the control room...just the like good ol'
fashion communication system in boats and submarines! I think a mic
would be fine outside the machine. When I had my MRI, there were plenty of
objects in the room around the machine...I just couldn't have any metallic
objects on my body inside it. They were really concerned about that. I was
shot in the leg by a .357 magnum when I was a teenager, which left several
pieces of soft lead in my leg, which were removed surgically. That was
enough for them to open their manual and search for data on that caliber
of gun, types of bullets, copper vs. lead shells, etc.
Kris
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