By re-framing natural phenomenon as communication processes we can re-contextualize our place in the world in an effort to formulate appropriate design strategies. Re-engaging these processes as nodes in the living social network establishes those processes as contributing elements in the dialog with our past and future. By giving voice to these processes, a sonic voice, this dialog can be imagined.
Recognizing these natural phenomena, listening to the sonic fingerprints, and immersing ourselves in this aural architecture, connects us to the natural world in unexpected, subtle and sometimes spectacular ways.
Connecting a living process, by transposing its activity into an accessible perceptual realm, allows this voice to sing, and helps to tell a story, a story of our relationship to our own perceptions, and to the natural world.
Our engagement with the invisible forces around us radically affects our relationship with the culturally and historically constructed world. By framing these processes within a communications context we situate our humanity within a more inclusive sphere.
The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft carries six high-resolution sensors and three monitoring instruments sampling low-energy particles of solar origin and high-energy galactic particles.
ACE orbits at a point of Earth-Sun gravitational equilibrium about 1.5 million km from Earth and 148.5 million km from the Sun. From this location ACE has a prime view of the solar wind.
ACE also provides near-real-time 24/7 continuous coverage of solar wind parameters. When reporting space weather ACE provides an advance warning (about one hour) of geomagnetic storms. In this sense, Aurora's Aeolian Harp makes music we can hear, before the wind that makes it reaches us.
Recognizing these natural phenomena, listening to the sonic fingerprints, and immersing ourselves in this aural architecture, connects us to the natural world in unexpected, subtle and sometimes spectacular ways.
Connecting a living process, by transposing its activity into an accessible perceptual realm, allows this voice to sing, and helps to tell a story, a story of our relationship to our own perceptions, and to the natural world.
Our engagement with the invisible forces around us radically affects our relationship with the culturally and historically constructed world. By framing these processes within a communications context we situate our humanity within a more inclusive sphere.
The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft carries six high-resolution sensors and three monitoring instruments sampling low-energy particles of solar origin and high-energy galactic particles.
ACE orbits at a point of Earth-Sun gravitational equilibrium about 1.5 million km from Earth and 148.5 million km from the Sun. From this location ACE has a prime view of the solar wind.
ACE also provides near-real-time 24/7 continuous coverage of solar wind parameters. When reporting space weather ACE provides an advance warning (about one hour) of geomagnetic storms. In this sense, Aurora's Aeolian Harp makes music we can hear, before the wind that makes it reaches us.