"Flying something in space whose purpose is to make music until it dies"
'Project Calliope' is a satellite being launched by a group of space & music enthusiasts on the "TubeSat" platform. It'll be an ionospheric detector transmitting sonifiable data back to Earth for web streaming and remixing.
Conceptually, it's a musical instrument in space, played by space rather than just after-the-fact sonified. We like the idea of flying something in space whose purpose is to make music until it dies -- music from science.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]