What’s cute, cuddly, and makes all sorts of bizarro noises when it senses wireless waves? Yoshi Akai’s Wireless Catcher, of course! This analog synth contraption is simplistic in nature and complex in design, utilizing an onboard antenna to sense WiFi signals and then alter the sounds being outputted depending on signal strength and direction. It’s not exactly the symphony that Bach forgot to write, but it’s certainly beautiful in its own nerdy way. Yoshi’s site is here
The Lovell telescope at Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, has a dish diameter of 76 metres, providing resolution below 0.001 arc seconds, equivalent to resolving a cricket ball 16,000 Km away.
Revealing detail in diffuse objects such as nebulae and galaxies at wavelengths other than those of visible light…
The music you are listening to was constructed from the sounds of radio waves from space.
Interferometry composition by Sandettie Light Vessel Automatic.
A zero-k production, 2007.
The VLBA is a system of ten radio telescopes controlled from the Array Operations Center in Socorro, New Mexico by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The array works together as the world’s largest dedicated, full-time astronomical instrument. It uses the technique of very long baseline interferometry.Its first observation using all ten sites was May 29, 1993.
Each VLBA station consists of an 82-foot (25 m) diameter dish antenna and its adjacent control building which contains the station computer, tape recorders and additional equipment. Each antenna weighs 240 short tons (218 t) and is almost as tall as a ten story building. It uses earths diameter as a baseline.
