Yet Another Gain

A house interior covered with wall-sized, made-to-measure radiators integrated directly into the architecture. The large, resonant metal surface transforms sudden internal events – thermal pops, water hammer shocks, air explosions, debris impacts – into loud, gong-like sounds: build-up and release — a threshold-oriented percussion section.

Thermal stresses in a heating system.

The recording was made with two geophones attached magnetically to radiators at a Parisian maison moderniste by Janine Abraham and Dirk Jan Rol commissioned in 1964

Ephemeral Observer | E-O-005