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The armillary sphere is an ancient device used to measure the movement of celestial bodies. In my installation, I decided to change the function of the device by transforming it into a controller that allows for managing the orientation of the celestial spheres. I collided it with a virtual model of the Solar System and linked each planet moving in space with a sound generator previously tuned according to its ten basic physical parameters. There are meteor showers and the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) recordings also sonified by me. All this gives the viewer the opportunity to explore the Solar System sonically.

Piotr Madej (PL), born in 1979 in Cracow. An intermedia artist, composer and sound engineer. His works at the border of music, animation, physical simulation, AR and programming. A scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland (2017). His works have been presented in Poland and abroad, among others, at the Audio Art Festival in Cracow (2013), ArtScience Interfaculty in the Hague (2016), and at group exhibitions, such as Eko – Techno – Artmobil in Cracow (2017) or Garden Visible / Invisible in the Centre of Polish Sculpture in Orońsko (2017-2018).