Rooted to the earth, singing to the sky

Most of what we have written in these blog posts over the last year or so has been about…

Contemplating a mystery

Over the last few weeks, we have returned again to the technical questions related to receiving satellite signals for…

Antenna 1: Peter

We’re going to be building two different antennas (specifically, a bi-quad antenna and a logarithmic periodic dipole antenna)…

Countryside research

One of the practical problems to be dealt with, when trying to receive weak radio signals like the signal from the LES-1…

Straightening out

As part of our testing process of different potential locations for receiving signals, we decided to again try to monitor a…

Aleatoric elements

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…

The right kind of chain

In order to get the technical side of Signal Tide up and running, one of the central problems that we need to solve…

Malibu Hilltops

Summer updates

We’ve been pretty busy with Signal Tide work in the last few months — so busy, in fact, that we’re a bit late updating the blog! So, let’s fix that now.

We’ve mostly been busy with work which is, well, boring. Much of the work on Signal Tide relies on combining different…

On the roof

All the three of us stayed over at Tom’s place to get ready for our first antenna test. Our alarms rang in the middle of the night, and…