Carte du Ciel

2019 digitally synthesized sound sculpture duration: 8 minutes Carte du Ciel was an ambitious second phase of an international star-mapping project initiated in 1887 by Paris Observatory director Amédée Mouchez. A new photographic process revolutionizing the gathering of telescope images inspired the first phase, the Astrographic Catalogue of a dense, whole-sky array of star positions.Continue reading “Carte du Ciel”