Invisible Infrastructures

In this episode, you’ll hear a composition based on recordings that audibly capture various invisible infrastructures and the communication architectures they reveal but don’t always decode: digital space and its analog-to-digital conversions and the multiple possibilities of computer modulation of signals; electromagnetic space and radio wave fields, carrying coded and decoded signals from cellular telecommunications, mixed with natural and artificial radio emissions; acoustic spaces, carriers of symbolic sound markers.

(This episode contains binaural audio elements reproduced only through headphones).

A structure composed without knots, an imposed organization.
Reorganized by the need for capital, matter becomes ephemeral, the existence of connections overrides the need for movement. A desire for production, produced through the erratic rather than the haptic. The meaning of a word is dissolved in its meaning. The body exists through the network, it exists as a metaphor to understand the existence of movement through the network. A signal is developed and deported through invisible structures, the transmitter exists and is compromised by a lack of understanding of its surroundings. The potential movements of deterritorialization, possible signal lines, segment by segment exist interrupted.

Radial Spaces is a limited series of sonic essays produced by Francisco Petrucci and Astvaldur Thorisson and guests for Radio Antecâmara, dedicated to exploring the techno-poetics of sound and space.