The project proposes a mechanism to transform the vibrations produced by an atomic power plant close to the installation space into a multichannel audio stream, both audible online and as part of an offline installation site. Vibration sensors attached to turbines, pipes and other vibrating bodies inside the periphery of the power plant send a live audio stream to a server. An online client makes it possible to perform a stereo mix-down of this data for online listening. An offine installation plays this audio stream via a multichannel speaker system.
The main goal is to project the acoustical topology of the power plant into a control room, not with the aim of scientifc monitoring, but to generate a tactile presence, a surrounding landscape where the vibrations of the equipment in situ are projected and augmented to transform them into an all involving body experience. That what is (by nature and by decision) normally hidden from the public perception is made available to be heard both through the safe intimacy of the laptop headphones as within a space in geographic vicinity of (and thus potentially affected by) the power plant.
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