LBs Jan 07 blog

/CIRCULATION TRILOGY incompleted from 2005-

VOLTAGES FROM PHYSICAL NATURE'S REALTIME PROCESSES

hemiSferics: windwitnessing+'s global concept: recontextualizing sound in art
The ephemeral, listening and seeing its imagery as a perpetual generational process of contextualized wind-witnessing via realtime combinations conjoined with terrestrial and extraterrestrial phenomena; global inputs from listener-participants who monitor and offer these physical sources to create a unique and temporally constructed wind-centered whole. This windwitnessing project seeks to attach to the consciousness of people in a way not unlike the embedding of childhood sounds in long-term memory. Revisited sounds reinvigorate the present. The melding of natural energies is a satisfying human experience. The temporality inherent in wind-witnessing relies on the voltages from physical nature's realtime processes to offer this inclusive connection. An undeniably personal possession.

mind voice networking; recordings?
I feel no need. As our planet's clockwise motion slows further, changing cloud configurations appear as strangers to those who have spent their lives studying and archiving them. The availability of the internet enables me to satisfy years of conceptualizations about the playing of the world. I have begun to see the answers to my own questions about a world wired for what.

actions to be taken via Internet (mind voice networking: invitation to participate)
I proceed by getting the words and actions out of mouths and minds. These Internet pages begin to describe a multi-year project to witness the wind's processes, patterns and intermixtures. This is your invitation to become a contributor of sound and image resources, including your time zone, Longitude and Latitude coordinates of your wind-based monitorings; descriptions of seasonal differences and changing weather; the hardware and software to be used for sound gathering and transmission; and availability of one or two way set-ups for Internet testing and delivery.

Contribute what, how
My personal catalog of found soundings of wind-stirred vibrations from Latitude 46° 50' N Longitude 92° 11' W
Solar panels activate myriad sensors pre-amplified for overhearing vibrations not audible in space, like the groanings of tree trunks. SOUNDS GATHERED as well THROUGH such sensors as crystal, triaxial accelerometer, proximity, hydrophone, infrared. among my sounding results are amplifications from Aeolian and vibrational monitoring sources: my own terrain instrument windribbon gustiness, and my signal disc rain/snowdrops/fallen leaves events and the wind-stirred movements of birch trees made audible. sources are conditioned by season. antennas built on the North shore of Lake Superior hear the high pitched rise and fall of Sferics traversing the hemispheric north-to-south poles. buoyed but submerged for my purposes, hydraphones positioned for listening to horizontal "lightning" crackles in 35 degree below zero temperatures also detect sloshings beneath 2-foot thick floes, while frozen-in-place sensors above the ice monitor colliding ice crystals. A summer helium-filled balloon carries an FM transmitter aloft. A daylong monitoring vigil yields more than I had imagined. My FM earphones are in place and my eyes are aimed toward the transmitting package headed into the blue sky. I anticipate hearing its ascension and varying ambience, but the balloon is snared by a tree canopy. I open a lawn chair and sit down, as a Baltimore Oriole continues its nest building activities, giving me a ground view of her evolving hanging nest pouch. The bird's vocal stuttering spikes the crunching sounds of the balloon as it is scratched by green twigs and limbs in its path. Wind, leaves, and branches repeatedly rub the balloon. I use this balloon-aloft method many times later with an adjustable tether so as to park it just out of the reaches of the topmost branches. This recalls a July wind-stirred sampling made using a parabolic microphone I'd leveled over cornstalks on an Iowa cornfield for overhearing stirred wind and eddying causes. (Sounds I sespect may be present)
I could probe using a sensor to amplify a tautly-stretched 22- gauge galvanized steel wire, a tree sucker, branch, or weed. I might move on to identify new wind-affected sources. If i have a number of sounds i'd like to hear at the same time and these are in different locations, I could use multiple FM transmitters set to different vacant channels and employ as many receivers as necessary to hear them. i would plug these into a mixer having a stereo output. If i don't hear what i initially listened for, i would alter the input volumes of each source until i am satisfied with the mix.(listening results)
In preferences/sound, I click line input. Using Nicecast software/shareware (http://www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast/), I also select input. The incoming sounds become available on call via Internet as realtime streams from this line. A nearby soundroom accepts any sensor signals from FM transmitters, via cables, and line of sight modulated laser beamed sensor signals. I seek and find limitless natural-based sound sources. Through this web page, I'll tap into my sound collections and hopefully share with other participants