isound installation - 2025
Antenna, sdr, sound system, meteors, radar.
Every year, in early August, the Earth passes through the debris field left behind by a comet. Its dust burns up as it enters the atmosphere at high speed, creating trails that streak across the sky. For a brief moment, these shooting stars create a reflective effect for certain radio waves. It is then possible to “hear” the shooting star.
A special antenna and radio have been set up in Saint-Chels, France the 10th August, tuned to the frequency of a powerful radar located in Dijon.
Sporadically, a sound emerges from the noise: it is the rebound on the shooting star of the wave emitted in Dijon that reaches us.
By revealing this energy that passes through us, this device manifests the tenuous but tangible connection that links us to the star. A radio-astrology of micro-listening, which projects us toward the night sky, even when the full moon prevents us from observing it closely...
Drawing by Laurie-Anne Estaque