SIGNAL TIDE
︎︎︎ Sound design / composition, LACMA, 2017
Signal Tide is a project by Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty, for which I contrubuted music performance, audio engineering and sound design.
Kata and Tom commissioned David Bryant of Godspeed You! Black Emperor to create music for their project. David invited myself and others to participate, including James Hamilton, Sophie Trudeau, Xarah Dion and a local Sacred Harp choir. Music was created to be played in a call and response to the satellite as it passed over the installation space at LACMA in real time. We collectively imagined and composed a response to the lonely call of the satellite which was integrated in an outdoor installation created by the artists.
Signal Tide is a complex and mystifying sound and extraterrestrial radio project created by Tom and Kata, wherein they work with signals from an obsolete satellite. The artists developed technology to receive communication signals from the satellite that was initially launched in 1965 and soon malfuntioned, but maintains its orbit. An amateur astronomer discovered the signal some 40 years later and the LES-1 satellite continues to circle earth and emit its lonely beacon to this day.
More about this project can be found via the Signal Tide website, and via the LACMA website where the project was developed and supported via the LACMA Art + Technology Lab.
LINKS:
Whispers from Space
Kata and Tom commissioned David Bryant of Godspeed You! Black Emperor to create music for their project. David invited myself and others to participate, including James Hamilton, Sophie Trudeau, Xarah Dion and a local Sacred Harp choir. Music was created to be played in a call and response to the satellite as it passed over the installation space at LACMA in real time. We collectively imagined and composed a response to the lonely call of the satellite which was integrated in an outdoor installation created by the artists.
Signal Tide is a complex and mystifying sound and extraterrestrial radio project created by Tom and Kata, wherein they work with signals from an obsolete satellite. The artists developed technology to receive communication signals from the satellite that was initially launched in 1965 and soon malfuntioned, but maintains its orbit. An amateur astronomer discovered the signal some 40 years later and the LES-1 satellite continues to circle earth and emit its lonely beacon to this day.
More about this project can be found via the Signal Tide website, and via the LACMA website where the project was developed and supported via the LACMA Art + Technology Lab.
LINKS:
Whispers from Space
Image by KovácsO’Doherty