Rhizome | '70 MFA meadow piano

The Meadow Piano sits in a large, relatively flat meadow space and is itself 1/16th mile long by 1/8th mile wide. Its horizontal planes (one is shown), arranged in layers from three feet to three hundred feet above ground, are made up of stainless steel strands of varying diameters; these accomplish an imaging process both audible (by means means of flat response multi-channel sensors) and visual (through slow scan video) of snow, sleet, hail, rain and mist. The diagonal strands sense soft or gusty surface winds. The bottommost layer or grid gives a readout, again both audible and visually, of the complex thermal variations within the meadow, rising heat eddies, and the earth's ambient magnetism.

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IMAGE monitoring site: W-Example Terra plane coverage area ranging below and reaching far and wide out from the distant mountain. X-Profiles of sequentially scanned graphs showing a tiered disturbance detail caused by the entry of a foreign body as read by the vertical plane of the thermal, breeze, eddy and dust/pollen particulates monitor. Z-Detail of construction and affiliate site of thermometers and flow meters in 20 inch intervals. Vertical monitoring of transient temperature gradients will cover warm to cold during a sequence. Data is relayed via radar to a mountain top position and uplinked to satellite for computer disc storage and Fourier_transform studies. Tony Kroll and the "crew" pose for a thermal image.

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Year Created: 2011
Submitted to ArtBase: Thursday Feb 17th, 2011
Original Url: http://www.d.umn.edu/~lbrush/lbarchivesc1.html#anchor33428
Work Credits:
- leifbrush2, primary creator

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Artist Statement

Meadow Piano evolved from interactive sound sculptures, and planned projects are intended to broaden the monitoring capabilities of Earth's analog phenomena.

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'70 MFA meadow piano (2011)