(Source: Amanda Dawn Christie via Twitter)
(Source: CBC News)
Moncton artist bringing back sounds of former Sackville Radio-Canada towers
A Moncton artist has brought back to life the sounds of the 13 CBC Radio-Canada International shortwave towers that once stood in Sackville, N.B. on the Tantramar Marsh.
“It’s kind of like you’re conjuring ghosts of radio towers,” explained the artist Amanda Dawn Christie on Shift N.B.
Requiem For Radio: Full Quiet Flutter
The experimental sound art project Requiem For Radio: Full Quiet Flutter involves a scale model of the original towers, but a large model — about 16-metres wide, six-metres deep and five-metres tall.
Christie said the towers have red lights resembling the originals. They are made from pipes with four copper pads on each tower.
She added that when someone touches one of the copper pads, a wireless signal is sent to a computer, which then sends a sound file back to that tower of the actual, recorded sound the original tower made when it was operational. The sound is transmitted through a speaker on the model tower.
[…]But the model towers are more than something to be gazed upon and admired. They are musical instruments that Christie and two other musicians will be playing at one-hour performances on May 26 and 27 at the Aberdeen Cultural Centre in Moncton. The performances will also be broadcast on radio stations in Moncton, Montreal and New York.[…]
There’s a 16-ish minute performance of Pulse Decay on Amanda’s Soundcloud space here: https://soundcloud.com/amanda-dawn-christie/requiem-for-radio-pulse-decay-naisa-performance-toronto-2016
The Pulse Decay audio clip is quite creepy. It reminds me of the sounds NASA created based on the radio emissions of Saturn.