A440Hz
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Thinking about my friends Joel Snowden and Celia King today and their project A440Hz — they last year started a Vancouver artists’ collective venture, pursuing dialogue among artists and physicists on the marvels of electromagnetism and the principles of harmonic resonance… Joel’s been blowing minds all over town, including those of the the brainiacs at Science World, who have proposed to host an installation in some coming future.
I’ve told this story dozens of times: to demonstrate his concept, Joel drew a diagram on the 80 feet of walls in their gallery, detailing the relative bandwidths and various vibratory strata of the electromagnetic spectrum - bandwidths delegated for radio, cel communications, satellite, military bands, then cosmic rays at one edge down to the vibratory structures of matter at the other - extrapolating E=MC2 into the atomic resonances of the periodic table. Around one third of the way down the wall was an eight inch painted rainbow. This represented the visible spectrum of light. At around one fifth, a ten inch wave described the audible band. These sparse and separated eighteen inches, excised from the eighty feet of available information, described the outer edges of what most of us ‘know’ to exist, receptible to our two most culturally privileged senses. What else might be happening out there there beyond the edges of conventional perception. And what if privatizing bandwidths for cel phone communication was impinging on a spectra used by other organisms to communicate or coordinate — like for example, the bees, who now can’t seem to find their ways home around cel towers… My brain melted, then and now again…
Events at A440Hz are ongoing. Join their mailing list to be kept in the loop. Cool shet. Their participants list is spectacular… time to get on the bus…
While you’re thinking about vibrations, you gotta check out the shocking array of videos online about Cymatics and Ferrofluid…
On that subject, I just can’t let another opportunity pass by to link to my all-time favourite radical energy scientist [after Tesla of naturally] local British Columbian John Hutchinson. I used to see this cat around town at rock shows before I saw the extraordinary documentary about him on Discovery channel. One fascinating character, presenting a plethora of extraordinary electromagnetic possibilities… A bedazzling collection of video exists at American Antigravity. If Mr.Hutchinson stumbles across this reference link, he should know that we at Bachelor Machines and A440Hz would LOVE to talk to him…
