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Signal Tide
Ongoing updates about a sound and extraterrestrial radio installation by Kovács/O’Doherty
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Aleatoric elements
Aleatoric elements
In our previous post, we talked about how we created music for Signal Tide — together with David, Drew, James, and several others —…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Sep 18, 2017
Rooted to the earth, singing to the sky
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 our satellite-tracking process — antennas…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Sep 9, 2017
Summer updates
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…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Aug 31, 2017
Contemplating a mystery
Contemplating a mystery
Over the last few weeks, we have returned again to the technical questions related to receiving satellite signals for Signal Tide. (We have…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Jun 22, 2017
Names
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…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Jun 14, 2017
Straightening out
Straightening out
As part of our testing process of different potential locations for receiving signals, we decided to again try to monitor a pass of the…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Apr 4, 2017
The right kind of chain
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 is the problem of…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Mar 27, 2017
Malibu Hilltops
Malibu Hilltops
Over the last few months, we’ve been in touch with Lilian Haney (Community Relations Manager at SpaceX), and Meharban Singh (RF Engineer at…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Mar 20, 2017
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
It’s been quite a while since our last post. Things have been happening.
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Mar 20, 2017
November
November
Over the last month, we’ve been busy with quite a few different things (not least of which was our sound installation, Afterglow, which was…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Nov 15, 2016
Countryside research
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 satellite, is the…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Sep 12, 2016
September sounds
September sounds
September has brought much better weather — and, with it, easier conditions for attempting to track satellite signals. We’ve had a couple…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Sep 7, 2016
Rain
Rain
It’s been the coldest August in 25 years in Germany. Plenty of dreary grey clouds, intermittent showers, and dampness. Which, of course…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Aug 22, 2016
On the roof
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
Aug 20, 2016
Antenna 2: Heather
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 field than…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Aug 19, 2016
Antenna 1: Peter
Antenna 1: Peter
We’re going to be building two different antennas (specifically, a bi-quad antenna and a logarithmic periodic dipole antenna). The first…
Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty
Aug 12, 2016
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