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Radio Rocks Radio Rocks, consisting of three different kinds of stone, were each shaped like ancient cairns used in Neolithic times as astro-nomical markers. The cairns functioned as multi-directional anten-nas. In this sculpture there are three radios designed to receive frequencies from three different zones. On top is a pyrite mixer designed to receive live emissions from Jupiter transmitted via a dedicated line from the radio telescope at Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute in Rosman, North Carolina. On the left, a galena mixer picked up world-band short wave. On the right, a receiver developed by the satellite industry drew live microwaves identified as echoes of the Big Bang. The other two cairns featured fluorite, tourmaline and hematite which acted as non-linear mixers com-puter programmed to attract random local and world-band frequen-cies. Hematite continuously channelled Weather Radio. Levels were set at a murmur–the sounds from space invoking celestial harmonies that from the quieter time of Pythagoras have been referred to as the “Music of the Spheres.” |