The æthers Electromagnetic Travels | Claire Williams, Julien Poidevin

Oscillations (Performance)

This live session proposes to use our ethernet lines and communicating machines as a

canal to interact with the electromagnetic waves and vibrations that surround us.

Sound is used to modulate space and time as machines, antennas, radios,

microphones will stream these ethereal vibrations taken from different locations on the

earth and from our atmosphere.

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The æthers (talk)

Computers and smartphones, and all declination's of our modern technologies make our

electromagnetic doubles travel from one place of the planet to another. Sometimes they

wander indefinitely in the atmosphere; we have all become mediums. From cosmic rays

to gamma rays that saturate the emptiness through which we communicate, to whom

we can add human voices, personal messages, collective discussions and data.

From the second half of the XIX th century the invisible starts to be

seen. Chemists, physicians, engineers, inventors, mediums, theosophists and

other erudite collectively immerse themselves in a big bath of

substances. This environment that some may call “ether” or others “fluids” or “bodies”

are woven by forces, fluids and waves that emanate from animated or inanimate beings:

cosmic rays, human thoughts, vital fluids of plants, mediumnistic energy's or the

voices of the dead..to which we can add our modern telecommunications such

as satellites, WiFi signals, radio waves and telephone conversations.

Each in their manner, chemists, physicians, engineers, inventors, mediums, doctors and

theosophists imagine, sometimes together, devices to detect and explore all of these

forces.hey hack freshly invented devices or discover new ones

that can be assembled and used for other purposes: biometer, dynamometer,

stenometer, psycoscope, necrophone,

psychophone, perpetual movement machines, phonograph, telegraph, telephone...All

these devices are composite assemblies of measuring instruments,

chemical substances, physical devices, human bodies...They do not hide that they are

shaped by the forces they detect as much as they shape them.

Forces become tangible as their effects are translated in the form of photographic

images, plotted lines, movements of objects or strange sounds... This episode of

the XIXth century conceals unexplored possibilities of ways we

communicate through the void.

Version courte:

Computers and smartphones, and all declination's of our modern technologies make our

electromagnetic doubles travel from one place of the planet to another. Sometimes they

wander indefinitely in the atmosphere; we have all become mediums. From cosmic rays

to gamma rays that saturate the emptiness through which we communicate, to whom

we can add human voices, personal messages, collective discussions and data.

From the second half of the XIX th century the invisible starts to be

seen. Chemists, physicians, engineers, inventors, mediums, theosophists and

other erudite collectively immerse themselves in a big bath of substances.

This environment that some may call “ether” or others “fluids” or “bodies” are woven by

forces, fluids and waves that emanate from animated or inanimate beings: cosmic rays,

human thoughts, vital fluids of plants, mediumnistic energy's or the voices of the

dead..to which we can add our modern telecommunications such as satellites, WiFi

signals, radio waves and telephone conversations. Each in their manner, chemists,

physicians, engineers, inventors, mediums, doctors and theosophists imagine,

sometimes together, devices to detect and explore all of these forces and the ways we

communicate through the void.

Link: http://www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com/blog/etheric-ocean/

Related projects:

http://www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com/projets/zoryas/

http://www.xxx-clairewilliams-xxx.com/projets/antennas/