space – Richard Gallon – We Are Here

Trying To Contact Aliens

I really enjoyed this. A short film about someone who built a transmitter in his grandmother’s back garden to transmit music to other lifeforms in outer space.

Two completed Space Rocks

Photos of the two ‘completed’ Space Rocks so far.

Space Rock innards on new PCBs.

Space Rock innards on new PCBs. Working. Video.

Space Rock PCB – 01

Space Rock PCB – 02

We Are Here exhibition catalogue preview

Here’s a sneak preview of the We Are Here exhibition catalogue.

Space Rocks demonstration video

Installation proof-of-concept video.

Today’s musical inspiration…

…is Raymond Scott’s Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961-1971.

Display stands for the Space Rocks

Some designs for the stands for the Space Rocks.

Space Rock with masking tape 'stand' — Space Rock with masking tape ‘stand’

Space Rock with masking tape 'stand' — Space Rock with masking tape ‘stand’

SHAPE4 - stand — SHAPE4 – stand

We Are Here

We Are Here Spotify playlist

A Spotify playlist to accompany the research for We Are Here.

Installation ideas

Some further sketches for presenting the Space Rocks.

This blog documents the development of the interactive audio project, We Are Here.

We Are Here is about the time capsule that was returned to Earth by an alien civilisation in response to these original Voyager records. It is a ‘message in a bottle’ from an extraterrestrial life form. Who sent it? And why?

A series of interactive sculptures (Space Rocks) using sound to tell the story of their planet of origin. They are a message sent back to Earth in response to the launch of the Voyager Golden Record.

The final installation uses Arduino microcontrollers connected by LoRa (Long Range) digital wireless data communication, placed in specially-designed 3D printed shells.