Jocelyn Robert: Experimental Sound and Video

One of the coolest parts about my job is that I sit on a committee to pick visiting artists and designers for our lecture series each semester. I get introduced to talented sound and video artists like Jocelyn Robert. I especially love his Ground Station project:

Ground Station produces music in real time by following the current azimuth, elevation and signal strength of twenty-seven Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. Ground Station (GS) is in a sense an audible reflection of the activities of the GPS network it watches. Whereas GPS was developed as a positioning technology to aid in warfare, GS inverts the traditional use of this data by watching the positions and movement of the satellites themselves. As GPS data is fed into GS, it is processed by an algorithm designed by the artists that filters and transcodes this into musical notation. This unique, continuous musical score is then played live on a Dysklavier piano.

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