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Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Sep 18, 2017

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…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Sep 9, 2017

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…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Aug 31, 2017

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…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Jun 22, 2017

Contemplating a mystery

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

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Jun 14, 2017

Names

We have been working on this project throughout the last twelve months, and in that time, it has slowly changed and evolved. When it first began…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Jul 19, 2016

So it begins

So it begins.

We are Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty, and, together with Kris Slyka, our technical collaborator, we’re trying to figure out how to get a reliable signal from the LES-1, a now-defunct satellite, launched in 1965. It’s the first part of our research for a new piece…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Aug 12, 2016

Antenna 1: Peter

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

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Aug 19, 2016

Antenna 2: Heather

Heather is our next antenna. She’s a logarithmic periodic dipole antenna — one that will get a stronger signal in a narrower…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Aug 20, 2016

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…

Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty in Signal Tide

Aug 22, 2016

Rain

It’s been the coldest August in 25 years in Germany. Plenty of dreary grey clouds, intermittent showers, and dampness. Which, of course, makes it pretty difficult to get satellite signals, what with all that cloud and rain in the way.