Solar Radio Station

In this (live) installation one can listen to the sounds of the universe originating from various sources. They have been collected by the artists’ group radioqualia (Honor Hager, Adam Hyde) in cooperation with the Riga media culture center RIXC. The recordings are coming from various radio telescopes. Additionally, during two days, there will be live feeds from the VIRAC radio astronomy telescope in Irbene (Latvia) which will be acoustically re-worked and interpreted live by the experimental musicians Clausthome (Latvia). VIRAC is the largest radio telescope worldwide (32 meters in diameter) accessible for civilian use – thanks to RIXC’s continued efforts.

Solar Radio Station is collaboration between the artists of RIXC and r a d i o q u a l i a, Clausthome musicians and VIRAC - Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center scientists.

The collaborative set-up consisting of 3 parts:

r a d i o q u a l i a (NZ / AUS / GB / NL)
solar listening_station
2003/2006

Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Martins Ratniks / RIXC (LV)
RT-32: Acoustic Space Lab
DVD, 2002/2004/2006

Martins Ratniks, Clausthome (LV)
Spectrosphere
Video by Martins Ratniks with sound by Clausthome, 2003/2006

The unifying element is the live performance taking place on May 20 and 21, 2006 from 19:00 – 21:00.

Clausthome musicians and VJ Martins Ratniks will be interpreting real-time signal of cosmic objects' scanning, performed with VIRAC Radiotelescope in Irbene using former military antenna RT-32.

Real-time observations will be powered and sent to internet by project team in Irbene:

Dmitry Bezrukov/VIRAC,
Davis Bojars, Signe Pucena, Agnese Rucina / RIXC.

LIVE STREAMS (both - live from Irbene and interpreted from Dortmund) will be available:

http://rixc.lv/solar


Program:
Live Performance on Sat May 20, 7-9pm.
Live Performance on Sun May 21, 7-9pm.

Curated by:
Francis Hunger (Junior Curator)

Links:
http://www.rixc.lv
http://www.radio-astronomy.net
http://www.virac.lv

RIXC (LV) - Raitis Smits, Rasa Smite, Martins Ratniks, Davis Bojars
r a d i o q u a l i a (NZ/AUS/NL/GB) - Adam Hyde, Honor Harger
Clausthome (LV) - Lauris Vorslavs, Girts Radzins

Supported by:
Kulturbüro Stadt Dortmund
38. internationale kulturtage der stadt dortmund / scene: estland lettland litauen in nrw
Kunststiftung NRW
Der Ministerpräsident des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Kultusministerium der Republik Lettland
dortmund-project
LEG