Acoustic Cameras

Sound annexation project

What is Acoustic Cameras?
The image you see is a real time stream from a live webcam located somewhere on the planet. The sound was specially created for this stream by an artist invited by the Acoustic Cameras collective.

How does it work?
The invited artist chooses a camera among the thousands of live webcams proposed by the Acoustic Cameras collective. He/she composes a music and/or a sound piece for this camera. The AC team aggregates the sound and the camera and puts them online.

The webcams’ flow is intercepted but not modified. The artist is invited to deliver a sound or musical piece related to this flow; this piece acting as a modification of reality. The resulting work thus created is the encounter of a recorded sound piece and the live capture of a fluctuating landscape. Depending on the season, on the weather, on the time of day or night, the camera continuously scans the filmed place (seaside, city or mountain) and writes in real time the film of the artist’s music. The music, the sound design, by monopolizing the filmed landscape, soon takes on a narrative, dramatic dimension, according to the principles of music in cinema. The only difference is that here the film is written simultaneously.

Acoustic Cameras is an artistic project in the form of a website, created on January 1, 2016. To date, more than 100 international artists - composers, poets, sound artists - participate.
Stay tuned ! Acoustic Cameras expands continually, regularly enriched with new works of artists.

Morgane Rannou

Matière noire

Mauna Kea Observatories - Honolulu - United States

lat.: 19.8230, long.: -155.4718

About the work

Partir du petit, de l’infinitésimal, de l’atome. Des ondes invisibles qui captent des astres. La création sans fin, la source sombre. Et le vide noir.

Les observatoires du Mauna Kea sont un ensemble d'observatoires astronomiques situés au sommet du Mauna Kea, un volcan inactif de l’île d’Hawaii. Ils abritent le Submillimeter Array composé de 8 radiotélescopes spécialisés en observations submillimétriques, une technique qui consiste à étudier des longueurs d'onde de l'ordre du dixième de millimètre afin de recueillir des informations sur le milieu interstellaire. « Matière noire » s’inspire du lien entre l’infiniment petit de ces éléments invisibles à l’œil nu, du domaine de l’infrarouge, qui constituent tout ce qui nous entoure, et l’immensité de l’univers stellaire observable. Un son sous forme d’échos, comme venu de loin, allié à des variations de bruits « sourds », à la fois intimes et subtiles, qui apporte un mouvement dynamique au fil de l’écoute.

(Pièce sonore à écouter avec un casque audio)

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The Mauna Kea Observatories are a set of astronomical observatories located at the summit of Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano on the island of Hawaii. They house the Submillimeter Array composed of 8 radiotelescopes specialized in sub-millimetre observations. This technique consists in studying wavelengths in the order of tenth of a millimetre so as to collect information about far interstellar environment.

« Matière noire » comes from the link between the infinitesimally small made of elements that are part of the infra-red field and which surround us and the immensity of the observable stellar universe. A sound like echoes, as if it came from afar and combined with variations of muffled sounds, both very subtle and intimate, that convey a dynamic movement throughout the listening.

(The sound track is to be to listened with headphones)

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