Category Archives: Art

Satellite Sonification with OSC in python, Workshop ICAS/ECAS @ Mutek, June 2nd 2012

Posted on 2. June 2012 by reni

Soon after we knew we were going to launch our own little satellite into orbit, we started thinking about how to make mursat1 and its flight accessible to others. We wanted to come up with a set of diverse interpretations … Continue reading →

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Satellite fishing at Montroyal, Friday 1st June 2012

Posted on 2. June 2012 by reni

Part 3 of our work cycle in Montreal is a field trip to Mont Royal, the hill in the center of town. We are lucky with the weather, it has been raining quite often, and that would make a trip … Continue reading →

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Worklab VII June 21st to June 24th 2012

Posted on 29. May 2012 by reni

Hey, it’s time again to gather in a bigger round, and focus our efforts to build the next steps. From June 21st to 24th, we will meet, starting round noon until late night, as usual. Have a look, in either … Continue reading →

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Satellite Sonifications at ICAS/ECAS @MUTEK 2012

Posted on 29. May 2012 by reni

If you are in Montreal, Canada, come and meet us at one of our talks or workshop units! We are two of the mursat-team, Jogi Hofmüller and Reni Hofmüller, who were invited to be at the MUTEK-festival, as one of … Continue reading →

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Exhibition “Covered Skies”, opened on 4th of May 2012

Posted on 4. May 2012 by reni

A coincidence in 2009 played the announcement of IOS, Interorbital Systems, in our hands. This small company, based in the USA, enables us to construct our own pico satellite and launch it into orbit for about € 6.000,- And suddenly … Continue reading →

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Tonight broadcast of our noon concert from Sunday, 9th of October 2011

Posted on 13. October 2011 by reni

Tonight, 13th of October, recordings of the Sonification Concert from Sunday 9th of October, will be broadcast on Ö1 (ORF) from 11pm on, in Zeitton, moderated by Susanna Niedermayr. It is amazing to realize how much we have already learned … Continue reading →

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Sonifications of satellite data at musikprotokoll 2011

Posted on 4. September 2011 by reni

Sonifications of satellite data such as used in gpredict (elevation, azimuth, footprint, …) will be part of ESC’s exhibition “Possibility grid”, alongside with other sonification projects based on the interpretation of windtime. Exhibition opening on Sat, 24th Sept, 7pm opening … Continue reading →

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Satellite Travel Interpretations at ESC

Posted on 26. June 2011 by reni

Once our mursat1 will travel in orbit, it will send different types of data; a CW beacon with its name, battery status, solar cells, and a counter of its beacons sent out for GX, on the other hand also the … Continue reading →

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Orbit About The Polywave

Posted on 9. June 2011 by reni

by GX Jupitter-Larsen I’ve always been enamored by entropy, and entropy implies measuring. If it wasn’t for decay, we wouldn’t be able to notice the passing of time. This is  where the act of counting comes in, because counting implies … Continue reading →

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reflections on “orbitando satelites” in Gijon

Posted on 30. May 2011 by reni

When Joanna Griffin asked me for the first time (will have been on monday, the first day, so the … let me think…9th), why i am interested in satellites, and what i was doing in gijon, i said something like: … Continue reading →

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