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Meteors - Radio Echos

A radio antenna detects meteor showers entering our atmosphere at a frequency of 49.968MHz MHz. The glass window of the exhibition space is turned into a sound propagation material where the meteors activity can be heard from the exhibition space to the street.

Credits: BRAMS, production Le Vecteur 2017.

derrière les étoiles, Cubes garage 2024

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Credits: livemeteors

When a meteorite penetrates the upper layer of the atmosphere at high speed, its encounter with air molecules provokes a reaction known as ionization, which manifests itself in the form of a luminous trail. Like a mirror reflecting light back towards its source, ionized trails reflect radio waves back towards the radio transmitters that produced them, creating what are known as “meteor echoes”. Permanently connected to an antenna located in Dourbes and broadcast by CAMRAS and BRAMS, an amateur radio platform dedicated to listening to space phenomena, the transducers amplify the meteor's disturbances.

This project was produced at a residency at Le Vecteur and Transcultures in Charleroi.

Résidence à Chaleroi