Oscillations - Live Sonic Performance

Oscillations ((Claire Williams & Julien Poidevin) propose d’utiliser nos lignes Ethernet et nos machines communicantes comme un canal pour interagir avec les ondes et les vibrations électromagnétiques qui nous entourent. La matière première de cette performance est constituée de différents phénomènes électromagnétiques captés en direct provenant de l’ionosphère, de l’activité électromagnétique du soleil, d’ondes radio et des champs électromagnétiques de nos circuits électroniques. Il s’agit de penser nos machines communicantes comme des canaux éthériques qui émettent et réceptionnent les ondes et vibrations qui transitent dans notre atmosphère, de les moduler et de les transformer pour rendre ce vide sensible.

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Oscillations was invited by Afroditi Pasarra on Transmission Ecologies to create a 1 hour track.

drawing @ Lucie Rouxel

Live at Atoma, BrusselsLive at Keminy, France 2021

Sound sources:

  • Zoryas (C.Williams, Baptiste de la Gorce) & E-callisto network
  • Sonification of the EMF activity of the sun in real time. / Raspberry pi
  • Live Stream of meteors arriving in our atmosphère, located in DC Metropolitan area and is currently pointing the Yagi antenna at a TV tower in Canada broadcasting on channel 2 analog TV, around 55.24 MHz, or based on availability and propagation on channel 3 analog TV, around 61.260 MHz, likely located in Timmins, ON. Receiver is RTL/SDR.
  • SDR-Rtl Dongle RTL 2832U & SDRPlay scanne rwith gqrx software.
  • Electro-textile FM radio scanner, Koma field kit
  • DIY EMF detector and antennas
  • Body antenna with Openthermine/Gaudilabs

Oscillations (Claire Williams & Julien Poidevin) is a live sonic performance that uses our Ethernet lines and communicating machines as a canal to interact with the electromagnetic waves and vibrations that surround us. Sound is used to modulate space and time as machines, antennas, radios, microphones and body's to stream these ethereal vibrations taken from different locations on the earth and from our atmosphere in real time.

Sonifying the electromagnetic activity of the sun , meteors radio echoes coming through our atmosphere, the activity of tweaks and spherics oscillating in the ionosphère, or tunning in our local radio stations are some of the electromagnetic waves that Oscillations uses to propose an immersive journey into the invisible.

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Live at Keminy, France 2021

Live at Atoma, brusselsLive at Keminy, France 2021

Sound sources:

  • Zoryas (C.Williams, Baptiste de la Gorce) & E-callisto network
  • Sonification of the EMF activity of the sun in real time. / Raspberry pi
  • Live Stream of meteors arriving in our atmosphère, located in DC Metropolitan area and is currently pointing the Yagi antenna at a TV tower in Canada broadcasting on channel 2 analog TV, around 55.24 MHz, or based on availability and propagation on channel 3 analog TV, around 61.260 MHz, likely located in Timmins, ON. Receiver is RTL/SDR.
  • SDR-Rtl Dongle RTL 2832U & SDRPlay scanne rwith gqrx software.
  • Electro-textile FM radio scanner, Koma field kit
  • DIY EMF detector and antennas
  • Body antenna with Openthermine/Gaudilabs