klklkl (satellitecture)

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2008

The shape of dishes – designed to collect high frequencies of satellite signals – is reused to break, filter and modify sound waves. Reflecting both their own sound and the incoming beam from other dishes, they create a complex sonic and spatial experience of overlapping sound patterns. It is an exploration of the acoustic properties of every objects designed to modify the function of the dishes from passive receivers to active broadcast media.

The composition is a combination of sounds projected from the dishes and perceived by the observer in different volumes, dependent on the position of the listener and its dish.

Next to a sound and media experiment, satellitecture is also an architectural project – the parabolic dish is an architectural shape that should be gradually developed into an architectural-acoustical element, based on its characteristic to reflect sound to a focal point.

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