Over The Horizon
Over the Horizon is a visual and sonic study of signals compiled by radio amateurs from all over the world over the past decades. The original recordings and visual representations of those signals can be accessed at www.sigidwiki.com. The title refers to a type of radar that can « hear » beyond the horizon.
We are collectively immersed in the invisible world of radioelectric surveillance transmissions. These sounds are messages we are not supposed to decode; their meaning escapes our understanding. In this piece, you can hear hundreds of exchanges from military and civil aviation, air and sea communications, radar, satellite broadcasts, Morse-coded diplomatic messages, voice scramblers, GPS positioning and timing utilities, frequency jamming, and scientific research protocols.
I am also interested in these signals because they evoke the sounds of various electronic music genres — from the first compositions of the 1950s to the most contemporary glitch and noise music. Through electroacoustic composition, I experiment with the limits between signal and noise, as well as between music and radio transmission technologies.
