The latest 3D printed prototypes for the Space Rock shapes.
Plus a video of the shells glowing, courtesy of Arduino.
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The latest 3D printed prototypes for the Space Rock shapes.
Plus a video of the shells glowing, courtesy of Arduino.
Looking at some shapes that tessellate for the Space Rock 3D models.
Some low resolution 3D prints. Getting used to the process, investigating how to add the electronics for audio and interaction and also working out the most ergonomic size for the final objects. In this case, bigger is definitely better.
Spent a couple of hours at the Horniman Museum looking at shapes and unusual / ‘alien’ forms for the Space Rocks. Also interesting style of curation. See the gallery here.
Some further sketches for the Space Rock shapes. These based on collages of the original shapes created.
Some sketches for possible installation of Space Rock objects.
Sounds generated from the various symbols featured on the Pioneer plaque, using Alchemy.
A playlist of audio experiments for the installation piece ‘What Goes Around’, using the narratives and spoken word generated from my recent workshop.
Second text created using Markov chain text generation. Again, the text is in the order it was generated, although some slight edits have been made to give the text a bit more flow and ‘sense’.
was being much like those back home.
but maybe we’re not quiet.
shows not only family.
tenderly.
quite done with wandering after all.
Being from and surprises the edges.
in honour of the sounds of the object.
sparsely, tendency, finally around the screen.
much less of the object.
Under closely, which finally that.
the artist’s ranch.
When they all listen.
the council would change us all.
the moon landings.
Taken.
and the small life deciphering the stars.
come riding horses.
Some before.
the contact with wandering travel.
They travel.
object is so near as macro.
would do the pictures from the lens.
have begun.
heard the same from.
As he once again see scans them.
occasionally the Earth.
she notices that finally.
mission for survival.
Before static, waiting the home rest.
time has passed.
much; it was, but they weren’t enough the map.
some time to listen is.
a sort of us.
because life.
They played from memory and the edges.
and the bother means came naturally, tenderly.
and sounding like spider legs.
the rider closely.
communicating against the stars.
scanning their artists travel.
he came named.
This text was written as part of a workshop based on a series of five randomly-selected images that were originally sent into space as part of the Voyager Golden Record in 1977.
The Quartet. 19/03/2018
Families gathered outside in the street. At the gate. Stopping for a while to take in the music. Many others also came to listen. Standing still. They wondered at the sound. They too had seen the moon landings. But it took some time to connect the sounds of the instruments to the pictures from the night before. The grainy capsule. The crackling voices beamed down, announcing the moment that would change us all. Or at least most of us.
Out in the Desert, a lonely figure wandered with this horse, scanning the horizon for signs of life. At his side was a small listening device. A radio, tuned to static, waiting to receive some sound. Occasionally the rider stops, tunes, looking for signals. As he tunes, he once again see scans the horizon. Once or twice he looks back at his trail. Where he came from. As he had little idea where he was going. Just had to find the end to this desert. He rode, stopped, tuned, rode again. He had food and water for a few days more.