Re: The MRI and Looping: For Ambient & Experimental Music?

[paul <phaslem@wightman.ca>]

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
>