The Signal

The Signal may refer to:

See also

The Signal (Urthboy album)

The Signal is the second album from The Herd member Urthboy and was released on the 14 July 2007. The album features production from Australian artists El Gusto of Hermitude fame and Count Bounce from TZU. It also features collaborations from several prominent Australian MCs and Musicians. The album was released on CD and double vinyl.

Overview

The album was selected as a feature record on Triple J, Groove FM (Perth), PBS and received significant airplay on FBi Radio, 4ZZZ and other community radio stations across Australia.

The Signal was nominated for the 2007 AIR Charts Awards and in November 2007 was nominated for Triple J's J Award. In receiving the nomination Levinson stated:

The first single from the album was "We Get Around", which was released together with a video made by Broken Yellow (directed by Brendan Doyle and producer by Navid Bahadori). Broken Yellow were also the production company behind The Herd's video "I Was Only Nineteen". "We Get Around" received significant airplay on Triple J and reached #25 on Triple J's Hottest 100 for 2007. It currently features in a commercial television advertisement for the Victorian State Government's M1 Upgrade.

The Signal (2007 film)

The Signal is an American horror film written and directed by independent filmmakers David Bruckner, Dan Bush and Jacob Gentry. It is told in three parts, in which all telecommunication and audiovisual devices transmit only a mysterious signal turning people mad and activating murderous behaviour in many of those affected.

The film's three interconnected chapters ("transmissions") are presented in a nonlinear narrative. Each of them manifests elements of (besides the overall genre of psychological horror), respectively, splatter film, black comedy, and a post-apocalyptic love story. The Signal was met with a mixed but largely positive critical reception.

Plot

The film opens, showing that Mya is cheating on her husband Lewis with a man named Ben. Ben attempts to convince Mya to leave the city with him, but she remains noncommittal. As Mya exits, Ben turns the television on and watches a bizarre, psychedelic sequence of images. Mya begins to listen to a compact disc given to her by Ben, but she is menaced by men who are acting strangely in a parking garage. When she reaches her apartment building, she finds more people behaving strangely. Unknown to Mya, the Signal, a static-like interference that is coming through the television, radio and telephone amplifies each person's negative emotional traits, causing them to act irrationally and, in most cases, violently.