"This space-themed sound piece is inspired by the alteration of time dimension. Two concepts are considered in space: duration is stretchable and thus the perception on earthly sound events is brought to a new view; electronic communication via the wave signal is the primary cognitive means of facts and resemblance of existence in space traveling.
The sound piece is constructed in a simple form. Each segment is marked with the entrance of print/ dial tones and audible speech such as ‘Beginning’, ‘Wheels On’, ‘Discovery Welcome Back + A Great Evening to the New Beginning’. Apart from the provided sound sample by NASA, sound manipulation in my work involves only two samples of a dot-matrix printer and a dial-up modem with which I created a number of variations mainly by digitally altering the sound properties of pitch, time and reverberation. All perceivable melodies, harmonisation, and ‘instrumental’ timbres are extracted and operated f
