STORMTRACKER, 2008-2010
sound installation, photographies

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When lightning in the atmosphere occur, VLF (Very Low Frequent) electromagnetic waves (radiowaves), so called Whistlers, Tweeks and Sferics are generated. They can be converted into sound using a VLF-receiver. Even if there’s no lightning nearby, you can hear Whistlers from storms thousands of kilometres away, since they might have traveled all the way around earth using the magnetic field-lines. Lightning is constantly striking somewhere on earth, about 100 times per second, so VLF-signals are constantly generated around our planet.

In my ongoing project ”Stormtracker”, I have done field-recordings with an Inspire VLF-3 receiver. Similar to the way that we are connected in real-time to what is happening on our planet through internet, radio communications, telephones and so on, being able to listen ”live” to the signals with the VLF receiver gives a feeling of somehow being connected to space.

1. Field recording at Dromonero, Greece, 2010
2. Field recording at Öland, Sweden, 2008
3. Field recording at Djurby, Sweden, 2008
4. Field Recording at Mölndal, Sweden, 2008
5. My Very Low Frequency - receiver
6. Installationview at The Loose Knowledge Movement, Fredsgatan, Stockholm, 2008
7. Installationview at The Loose Knowledge Movement, Fredsgatan, Stockholm, 2008