108” x 72” dia.
Wood, spotlight, tape player, custom soundtrack, speaker, motor, curtain
Disco ball: Glass and hand-ground impact glass (glass produced when a meteorite strikes the Earth and melts the surrounding sand), Styrofoam, glue
Soundtrack: T. Rex’s “Cosmic Dancer” and “Life’s a Gas” mixed with space sounds captured by NASA’s Cassini space probe of solar winds crashing into Jupiter’s magnetic field on Dec. 8, 2000. Also included is a recording of a meteorite piercing Earth’s atmosphere, recorded at an observatory in 1999.
Earliest waveform recordings of blood flowing from the heart and in the brain during sleep, dreaming, and various emotional states (1874-96).3-D printed in brass-plated stainless steel; lacquered maple, 22k gold leaf; video, waveform audio processing by Patrick Feaster