The Simonsound at Herstmonceux Observatory

Here is a recording from a live space ritual performed in Dome B at Herstmonceux Observatory in Sussex. Combining Buchla Electric Music Box, Kaleidoloop and a Yapp 36 inch refracting telescope, the aim was to summon cosmic transmissions from deep space. Over the course of the evening we picked up voices of long lost astronauts, stars being born, distant undiscovered planets with strange atmospheres, creaking relics of the space race and many more things that defy description. The sounds of these space transmissions can now be heard.

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Herstmonceux Observatory

The smog of London drove the Royal Greenwich Observatory to Sussex.

Dome B

Preparing the space ritual - Photo by Curtis James

at the controls

Buchla patch sheet

Scanning the universe - photo by Grant Phillips