September 12, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

In our previous post, we talked about how we created music for Signal Tide — together with David, Drew, James, and several others — recording new versions of specific sacred harp hymns. However, the work that we undertook was not just a process of re-creating new versions of existing songs. We also recorded many further […] Full details »

September 9, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

Most of what we have written in these blog posts over the last year or so has been about our satellite-tracking process — antennas, software, satellite-pass monitoring, stuff like that. However, this process of receiving signals from the LES-1 satellite is just one half of Signal Tide. Signal Tide has two sides. We’ve been referring […] Full details »

September 1, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

We’ve been pretty busy with Signal Tide work in the last few months — so busy, in fact, that we’re a bit late in sharing any news about our research. So, let’s fix that now. Until pretty recently, we were still out in the German countryside, in the small village of Stolzenhagen. One of the […] Full details »

June 22, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

Over the last few weeks, we have returned again to the technical questions related to receiving satellite signals for Signal Tide. The work that we are doing involves chipping away at a few different interrelated questions that we will need to answer in order to make Signal Tide work. We’ll be posting about them all […] Full details »

April 4, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

As part of our testing process of different potential locations for receiving signals, we decided to again try to monitor a pass of the LES-1 from the grounds of LACMA — specifically, from the roof of the Pavilion for Japanese Art. We had two passes that we wanted to try to be able to monitor […] Full details »

March 28, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

In order to get the technical side of Signal Tide up and running, one of the central problems that we need to solve is the problem of making the right kind of chain. We need to… …in order to take the signal from the LES-1, and reliably play that as live audio. This process, of […] Full details »

March 21, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

Over the last few months, we’ve been in touch with Meharban Singh, RF Engineer at SpaceX, about Signal Tide. Meharban has been giving us some practical help in trying to get reliable signals from the LES-1 satellite. We are currently in Los Angeles, where we met up with Meharban, and also with Jeremy Fields, Paul […] Full details »

November 16, 2016
Filed under: Berlin · LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

Over the last month, we’ve been busy with quite a few different things (not least of which was the sound installation, Afterglow, which was presented in Berlin on October 8). So, it has taken a while to get back to focusing on Signal Tide, but earlier this week we started monitoring passes of the LES-1 […] Full details »

September 12, 2016
Filed under: Berlin · LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space · Stolzenhagen

One of the practical problems to be dealt with, when trying to receive weak radio signals like the signal from the LES-1 satellite, is the problem of radio interference. So far, all of our research has been happening in the middle of the city of Berlin — specifically, on a rooftop in Friedrichshain. Practically speaking, […] Full details »

September 8, 2016
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

In our ongoing research related to a new work, we have been building a system to intercept signals from the LES-1 satellite. September has brought much better weather for this work, after a rainy August. We’ve had a couple of very exciting moments, in just the last week or so, of suddenly finding the signal […] Full details »