Event

Very Low Frequency Remote Sensing // Listening Research Station

Sound Workshop With Eugene Lew

September 15, 2021 (Wednesday) — 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

Awbury Arboretum
Germantown, Philadelphia

ABOUT

In the first activation of the Awbury Arboretum Very Low Frequency Remote Sensing//Listening Research Station, we tune into low frequency sounds of the earth’s magnetosphere where the dramatic activity of the fiery sun’s register on earth’s atmosphere. This station is equipped with extraordinary tools including: 3 heptagonal magnetic antennae, each featuring 333 turns of enameled copper wire, deployed at 3 discrete points.

Workshop participants will perform listening, monitoring, and recording duties, and seek traces of the following in the myriameter band (but not exclusively):

solar wind / sferics
magnetosphere and lightning stroke activity
skywave/skip transmissions (radio waves both reflected and refracted back toward Earth from the ionosphere)
satellite communication
subterranean probing activity
power transmission harmonic byproduct
electron precipitation and ozone monitoring
gamma ray burst from outer space
No previous solar wind experience required;
all are welcome.

Open source receiver plans: https://github.com/LOM-instruments/Priezor

INTRA-GALACTIC FOREST

This workshop is part of the Intra- Galactic Forest program series happening in tandem with S(tree)work, a multi-year, public art project rooted in Philadelphia whose aim is to animate how we live among trees, curated by Marina McDougall.