The mirrors featured in the work of Disinformation, Joe Banks's sonic experimentation project, and in Tacita Dean's recent video works at Tate Britain. Pioneered by the slightly obsessive Dr WS Tucker in the Royal Engineers, several sound mirrors were built between Hythe and Dungeness in Kent. Imagine how beautiful that will sound.
"I love the fact that it's such an awkward, failed technology, which hasn't been covered up," she says. "The mirrors still exist." But as Autogena admits, she knows "absolutely nothing" about acoustics.
Strain your ears and you might just catch the horn of a passing ship. "I want you to be able to communicate directly across the Channel," she declares. "I love bubble wrap," said Hart. Now, however, the mirrors sit among modern development: by back gardens, beside the airport, or ringed by the deep ponds of gravel works, creating unsettling, incongruous juxtapositions. You can still hear the waves on the shore, the shouts of fishermen, but now they battle it out with the steady hum of the nuclear power station, the aeroplanes at Lydd airport and the cars of the pilgrims at Derek Jarman's cottage. They plan to start building the new mirrors later this year, to be ready in 2002. You'll be able to feel the space between you and your counterpart in France. A new sound mirror will be built on Dungeness and a second facing it near Boulogne, probably at Wimereux (appropriately, where Marconi's first radio broadcast was received). Vandalism to murals created by local artists in Federal Way is suspected to be racially motivated, Sound Transit said on Tuesday. Autogena plans to switch them on again. Work from this is being released in 2016/2017. They thought they were secret weapons with death rays."
The new listening ears, just like the old, will have at their centre an acoustic device to gather sound, only greatly updated. “I’d been self-recording since high school and I love the process so much, but I hadn’t seen many stories about it (even while ‘making-of’ things become more commonplace).
Kal Spelletich, a San Francisco robotics artist and longtime friend of Laughing Squid has created “The Burnell Galactic Positioning System” an incredible robotic installation that uses lasers and spinning double-sided mirrors to create sound.. A laser beam is pointed at a two-sided spinning variable speed concave mirror. "New acoustic technology in America can isolate sounds," Autogena says.
They will also press for the preservation of the original mirrors, which, though listed in 1979, seem to have been neglected by heritage bodies; they aren't far from collapse. The couple are as determined as Dr Tucker was in the 1920s. In 1935 radar was invented, and sound mirrors became redundant.
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