Oscillations

2021, 21:59 min.
Claire Williams and Julien Poidevin

Oscillations is a live sonic performance for radio 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 and radio echoes coming through the atmosphere, the activity of tweaks and spherics oscillating in the ionosphere, or tuning in the local radio station: these are some of the electromagnetic waves that Oscillations uses to propel us on an immersive journey into the invisible. - Described by Wave Farm Radio Art Fellow 2023, Lia Kohl.