HOW DOES IT WORK ?
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Essentially, the BRAND G-Player Products play the world in the same way a record player plays records. To be precise, we are scratching across the earth's topography with the help of two databases: on the one hand, we are using a topographic databases that contains the altitudes of every little dip, mountain and valley on our lovely little planet; on the other had we are using a dynamic database that allows us to calculate the orbits of any public-use satellite. These two databases are then combined.
Whether its the G-Pod, the GP4 or online with the G-ONE, our products allow you to choose any one of the satellites listed. Let's say, for example you select the International Space Station or ISS and that the ISS is right now crossing the Himalayas. From the very moment of your selection, you will sonically scratch across Tibet along the orbit of the ISS. You are not connected with the satellite but your ear flies along with it. In this way, every satellite becomes a different needle which plays the world in a different direction and with a different speed. In this way, we say, 'every orbit is a song'. And some of those songs can take hours, some even years!
Essentially, the BRAND G-Player Products play the world in the same way a record player plays records. To be precise, we are scratching across the earth's topography with the help of two databases: on the one hand, we are using a topographic databases that contains the altitudes of every little dip, mountain and valley on our lovely little planet; on the other had we are using a dynamic database that allows us to calculate the orbits of any public-use satellite. These two databases are then combined.
Whether its the G-Pod, the GP4 or online with the G-ONE, our products allow you to choose any one of the satellites listed. Let's say, for example you select the International Space Station or ISS and that the ISS is right now crossing the Himalayas. From the very moment of your selection, you will sonically scratch across Tibet along the orbit of the ISS. You are not connected with the satellite but your ear flies along with it. In this way, every satellite becomes a different needle which plays the world in a different direction and with a different speed. In this way, we say, 'every orbit is a song'. And some of those songs can take hours, some even years!
WHAT HAPPENS ABOVE WATER ?
Topographically speaking of course, the oceans are at zero altitude or 'sea-level'. The oceans then are like empty grooves, uncut parts of the record. In short, they are silent. Subsequently, since seventy percent of the Earth is covered with water, there is nothing to hear seventy percent of the time. Nonetheless we have more than one thousand satellites to choose from.WHY DOES IT SOUND THE WAY IT SOUNDS?
The sound is calculated such that the shape of the topography equals the shape of the audio wave, in the same way that one would look at the latter with the aid of a 3D audio program (spectral analysis). Only certain waves will look exactly like the shape of the topography that generated it. You can apply samples and so on but the wave will never match the Earth. The image below, an orbit from Berlin to Rome, displays both the sound and the region from where the developed sound originated.