Listening To Fog, The Sun, And the Moon

Light sensors read the light of the Sun, Moon, and Fog activating custom-made sound machines. +++++++++++++++

FOG

I videotaped the fog on Twin Peaks in San Francisco, California. A light sensor reads the changes in the light reflecting off of the fog. The sensor activates a motor activating mechanical bellows which blows air through a custom 3-D printed pipe organ.

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The MOON

I videotaped the moon. As the video plays back a light sensor reads the light of the moon. The sensor activates a motor as the light changes rubbing against a UFO-shaped cymbal.

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The Sun

I videotaped the sun. A light sensor reads the changing light of the sun triggering a motor with a stone attached to it. The motor rubs against a stringed instrument amplified.

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Listening To The Cosmos
I am exploring how we perceive and scale the universe
Hearing Light and Terrain
Time as a dimension traveling across it
Deciphering the nature and condition of our origins
Seeing sound Capturing Light. To hear and feel things, rather than to just see them.
Sonification.

A sound trio performed by the sun moon and fog, if you will.
We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

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“The Changing Light”

The changing light                 at San Francisco       is none of your East Coast light           none of your                  pearly light of ParisThe light of San Francisco                  is a sea light                        an islandlightAnd the light of fog                 blanketing the hills            drifting in at night                 through the Golden Gate                         to lie onthe city at dawnAnd then the halcyon late mornings              after the fog burns off                 and the sun paints white houses                       with the sealight of Greece             with sharp clean shadows                   making the town look like                        it had just beenpainted But the wind comes up at four o’clock                       sweeping thehills And then the veil of light of early evening And then another scrim                  when the new night fog                         floats inAnd in that vale of light               the city drifts                     anchorlessupon the ocean

by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

~ by kaltek on September 12, 2023.