Faraday Dream

Lathrop Duo

Dayshon Mathis with Here GOES Radiotelescope. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Faraday Dreams in progress on the Wave Farm deck. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Faraday Dreams prototype (2). Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Faraday Dreams protoype. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Lathrop Duo (Mike Mulshine and Dayshon Mathis) portrait. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Lathrop Duo on the Wave Farm deck. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Lathrop Duo working on Faraday Dreams. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Portrait of Dayshon Mathis. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Portrait of Mike Mulshine. Photographed by Lucy Bohnsack. (Aug 17, 2023)

Faraday Dream is a radio-based interactive sound installation that makes tangible the hidden but ever-present field of electromagnetism around us. It sonifies the relationship between humans and electromagnetism via custom-built partial Faraday cage radio sculptures that block radio waves unless a human (or other entity) is nearby. It also makes audible the beating between adjacent radio bands, painting an aural image of the sea of electromagnetism in which we forever swim.