
Best Of: The international mystery of 'the Hum'
Life and Art from FT Weekend
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Is There Something in the Sound That Is Ringing?
In this part of the tape, Imogen and Yvonne are walking the dogs in the valley near a stream. This line is harder to see. It looks more like a series of dashes, almost like it's pulsing. You can't hear anything there when I play that back to you,. But we can isolate that. And this caught my attention not only because it's a straight line, but because it intermittently stops and stops. In isolation. That seems to continue pretty much throughout this whole section. Remember, Yvonne does say that the hum feels like a pulse. And that's what the dashes represent, too. Not a continuous sound, but something going
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