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"the unending message that forms itself from silence" . . .

Contemplating a vista of sheds in the Victoria and Albert museum, The General Secretary of the I.N.S. (International Necronautical Society) asked me what I was going to do with the transmissions received by my (projected) radio telescope.

He responded with the quote above from Rilke.

In the spirit of his practice, what follows is an extract from a text derived from a broadcast of a meteorburst. Amplitude is mapped onto letters. Below a certain threshold = space.

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Posted by Jem Finer at June 2, 2004 4:11 PM