Dan Gorelick

ATC Listening Station

December 2016 – ongoing

Somatic sound experience blending live air traffic control radio with generative synthesizers

ATC Soundscapes is a participatory installation that merges live air traffic control (ATC) radio feeds with a procedurally generated synthesizer soundscape. The work is an invitation to explore deep listening for up to four participants at a time, who operate a toggle to switch between two simultaneous feeds. Listeners partake in the collective creation of a meditative and somatic composition, leveraging the efforts of communities who receive local air traffic control frequencies and rebroadcast them onto internet radio via liveatc.com. The global network of audio transmissions becomes a generative sonic landscape, bending and transforming various signals with resonant filter sweeps and binaural audio effects.

Curatorial text written by Eileen Isagon Skyers, 2024

Associations:

NEW INCSchool For Poetic ComputationNew Museum

Appearances:

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

Photographer: Dario Lasagni

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC installed at NEW INC DEMO 2024

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at New Museum / NEW INC Activation

ATC Installed at SFPC Seven Year show in 2020

ATC Installed at SFPC Seven Year show in 2020

Photographer: Kyle Knodell

ATC Installed at SFPC Student Showcase in 2016

ATC Installed at SFPC Student Showcase in 2016