Solarman

Moscow media-artist Dmitry Morozov comes out with the interactive installation Solarman that converts the solar radiation into sound, light and electric discharges.

The interactive installation developed by Moscow media-artist, musician and engineer of strange-sounding mechanisms Dmitry Morozov with his project ::vtol:: receives data on power of X-radiation flux from the Sun in real time from the satellite GOES15, which is tracking solar activity.

It is being converted into streams of sound, light and electric discharges, thus allowing a spectator to experience in more intensive and evident way the influence of the main luminary of the solar system.

The data, which is measured in watts per square meter, come with a frequency of once per minute. A special computer algorithm transforms it in sound waves, distributed by 12 channels in the space. The radiation power directly controls the height of tones and spectral changes in the sound.

The speed of sound displacement in the space is also dependent on these parameters. Light is generated by algorithmic transformation of X-ray emission into physical modeling of light particles, which also affect the muscle stimulators in the chair to produce weak electric discharges.