INSTALLATION
Satellite Sonata (Muonionalusta)
Robin Meier
Curated by Shazeb Shaikh
Time: 11.00 to 18.30
Venue: ADIL SHAH PALACE
The molten core of a protoplanet hurls through space for 4.5653 billion years. After a violent collision rips it out of the planetary disk that will become our solar system, it cools down a few degrees Celsius every 100,000 years. Its atoms interlock to form a crystallized metal. Finally, it collides with Earth and is preserved through 1 million years and 4 ice-ages in the Tundra of Sweden near the Muonio river.
Using techniques perfected by artists including Pinuccio Sciola in Sardinia and Svaram in Pondicherry, a satellite was made to vibrate at its unique resonant frequencies, producing the sounds of the stars. The instrument is probably the oldest thing that anyone who had seen and touched the instrument will ever encounter. This installation served as a reminder to visitors at the festival that there is poetry in pure data collected by a satellite orbiting the stars.




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Robin Meier
Robin Meier is a Swiss artist and composer exploring the emergence of natural and artificial intelligence and the role of humans in a world of machines. He tries to make sense of these questions through his installations, objects and compositions. Referred to as “Artist of the future” (le Monde), “Maestro of the Swarm” (Nature) or just “pathetic” (Vimeo) his works are shown in international venues and events such as Palais de Tokyo, FIAC and Musée d’Art Moderne Paris, Art Basel Switzerland, Shanghai Biennale or the Eli Broad Art Museum in Lansing Michigan. Robin Meier also works as a computer music designer for IRCAM / Centre Pompidou (Paris), CIRM (Nice) and various other institutions or ensembles.
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