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There is a very interesting sound installation coming to San Francisco in February (2/12-5/8 to be specific). It is by S.F.-based sound artist Bill Fontana and it will be housed at the S.F. City Hall building.

Fontana’s sound installation, Spiraling Echoes, will employ an acoustic phenomenon common to bats, dolphins and whales known as echolocation, in which high-frequency sounds produce an acute directional beam of ultrasound. Eight transducers will be mounted in City Hall high above the floor around the circular colonnade within the Rotunda’s dome. These transducers will send out ultrasonic beams that function as carrier waves for this project’s original soundtrack. The soundtrack, which will include a range of sounds from music to spoken word to wildlife, will bring the sounds of San Francisco past and present into the building. When the transducers are moving, the sound beams will travel downward in space, playing off of and moving through the various surfaces of the rotunda.

You can find the full description at sfacgallery.org

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