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1) The dish was explored in an acoustic fashion. It's groans, buzzes and sirens 
were recorded, and the dish itself was used as a massive parabolic microphone 
to scan the surrounding environment. 

2) The dish was used in its 'original' fashion. Satellites from the INMARSAT 
network were located and snooped on. Analog mobile phones, ship to shore 
communications, air traffic control signals and data packet transmissions were 
monitored and recorded. 

3) The dish was used in its 'retrofitted' fashion. Jupiter, Venus, and (most 
sucessfully) the Sun were located and scanned using precise radioastronomy 
equipment operating in the 11 GHz range.

The Acoustic.Space.Lab was organized by the RIXC media lab in Riga, Latvia, 
with support from the Daniel Langlois Foundation, the Latvian Cultural Capital 
Funds, the Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Center (LV), A Tehnolgijas 
(LV), the V2 Center for Unstable Media (NL), Kunstradio/Radio ORF (AT) and the 
Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. 

Special recognition goes to Marko Peljhan + Project Atol and Dmitry Bezrukov 
for technical support, and to Rasa & Raitis Smits for their organizational 
efforts.

http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net/lab
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