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1977
(Phil)
Meany ice shelf,
Lake Superior
conceptual
realtime
international listening site linkable via passaroundsound.net
(intlistening nodes)
I
wish to permanently re-start this project w/a buoy and sensor
combination in the summer. The configuration shown below depicts
the winter site. This installation was first heard in Chicago,
and I was not able to take advantage of my newly acquired triaxial
sensor for simultaneously listening to three nodes w/in the triangle
below. A fourth node was to have also been heard w/the strand
shown reaching the shore edge.
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Recording
session at 30 below zero (DC powered Nagra 4.2L reeltoreel, 15ips
analog recordings)
16
and 22 gauge wires about a foot above the ice floe were anchored
in the ice by turnbuckles . This triangulation successfully yielded
full track Nagra analog recordings. Surface winds regularly blew
dandruff-sized snow crystal into the strands. However, the wire
on the right headed back toward shore where sustained recordings
were never made because of the snomobile noise.
Rubber
encased Edo
Western
transducers were embedded beneath the four nodes of the triangulation
(top), including the one linked to the shore (above r in closeup)
and each sensor was covered with packed ice as shown. A strand
was attached to the visible eyebolt. The resulting mound was watered
and froze quickly. When finally
hacked loose, the rubber coated sensors did survive after monitoring
spectacular vibrations. These included a near deafening horizontal lightning-sounded
ice cracking,
sloshing water below the ice and of course, the snowmobilers.
Phil Meany clears
the blown snow build-up from beneath and along all the wires.
These each had a pair of Columbia Research Lab accelerometers
attached at both ends. The encased rubber hydrophones could detect
the snowmobilers from miles away. At this point I was hearing
sloshing beneath the approximately foot thick ice and pitched
motor noises.)
Dayglo
orange tags
flapping-in-the-wind-chilling afternoon were unsuccessfull against
a bundled-bunch of riders who skimed over all four strands in
a 1 through 9 order.
color installation
view-
Dutch
Elm disease claimed these trees which I found in a nearby alley and
were borrowed ftemporarily. Imported Sources performance with Gloria DeFilipps Brush
in the Midway
Studios of the University of Chicago
When the matte
black felt (pictured above) was removed from its Velcro-hold a
mirror was revealed. The sound-modulated METROLOGIC laser beam passed around audio via
front surface mirrors among the trees one by one. With each movement
of the modulatable-beam, a new sound stream was activated. The
room was fullest at the final tree. Ice floe rumbles, Sferics
and counterpoint snow crystals signaled the performance conclusion.
Reel to reel tape
recordings were made at earlier times on or near the Meany Lake
Superior inlet. The extraterrestrial Sfercs were listened to using
a home made wooden framed receiving antenna/monitor mounted vertically and anchored to
a shoreline outcropping. These high pitched streaked-sounds were
recorded on a Nagra 4.2L recorder. Studio amplifiers from an equalized
telephone pair received the Sferics sent via shortwave radio to
the amateur Oscar 1 satellite and outputing these imported sources
into the speakered gallery space below.
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