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Satellite Love
[pls. scroll down for english version & credits]

weiter geht's mit unserer kleinen reihe zur weltraumforschung*!
diesmal richtet GUNSTradio seinen radar auf satelliten aus. auf den spuren der raumflugkörper werden dabei natürlich auch deren musikalische umlaufbahnen erkundet.

* nachdem wir 2007 bereits intensiv den International Sputnik Day gefeiert haben und ansonsten natürlich vor allem mit radiator x regelmässig unendliche Weiten bereisen, ferne welten erforschen und seltsame strahlungen sondieren, startete unsere aktuelle GUNSTradio-mission im januar mit einer ersten raumsonde.
im april werden wir aller voraussicht das wellenspektrum des lichts unter die lupe nehmen. und in einer der darauffolgenden sendungen wird es dann natürlich auch noch einmal um satelliten gehen – allein schon, weil wir noch so viel schöne satelliten-musik in unserer sammlung haben…

übrigens: bis auf das erste (direkt vor dem eigentlichen beginn der sendung gespielte) stück sind alle musikstücke der sendung unter creative commons publiziert.

credits & hintergrundinformationen:
einige hin- bzw. verweise auf ressourcen für satelliten-freundInnen sowie weitere informationen zu allen gespielten stücken und den künstlerInnen finden sich im englischsprachigen teil dieses eintrags.

[english]

and we continue our little series on space research! this time GUNSTradio adjusts its radar to satellites. and of course we'll track their sounding traces in space as well…

after intensely celebrating International Sputnik Day in 2007 and regularly researching outer space, alien world, strange rays and their soundings with radiator x, we started our current GUNStradio space (trans-)mission series in january with a first space probe. we're planning to continue the mission in april by taking a closer look on light waves. and later we'll come back to our beloved satellites as well.

those who want to further explore themselves some of the projects introduced in the SATELLITE LOVE show might like to visit our HOME MADE LABOR WEBLOG (decicated to art, music and media with strong sympathies for DIY, and currently exploring ideas of hands on science – some GUNSTradio listeners might already know our "Webradio Tipp" series anyway). there you will find some stuff for satellite lovers published over the last years, and among the more recent articles also the following ones directly related to projects introduced in our show, like:

* "Wie Satelliten funktionieren" (on "Satellites. A User's Manual" – a series of very nice videos on the history and technology of satellites)
* "Mini-Satelliten" (on the CubeSat project)
* "Noch mehr Mini-Satelliten" (on Mike Rupprecht aka DK3WN's wonderful satellite pages)

… and more! (pls. note: all these entries are in german – however, you might still enjoy following the links…)

playlist & credits:

as always, miss gunst wishes to thank all artists, musicians, and sound collectors who created the pieces we played in our show.
as a pre-starter before the regular start of the show we enjoyed
Eurythmics: Satellite of Love (1983/2005 – Boxed/Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) – RCA/Sony BMG)

all pieces of the show were published under creative commons licence and released by netlabels (to which we want to give some extra-credits and thanks for the great work they are doing!).
Michael Trommer: Sleeping Satellites (2007 – Sleeping Satellites – test tube/tube072) – Monoceros: Escape from Gravity (2008 – I feel Apocalyptic Today – Imaginary Nonexistent Records/inr008cd // Intelligent Toys 5 – Sutemos/Sutemos023) – Deer (aka Martin Hirsch): Elevators (2008 – Intelligent Toys 5 – Sutemos/Sutemos023) – Satellite Grooves: Moon Module (2003 – Simplistic Transmissions – observatory online/os005)

… and last but not least we thank juskiddink for the wonderful eerie satellite sounds – what we heard was, as mentioned in the show, the "re-rub of a Jaeger 1224 horizon-to-horizon motor driving a 1.5 meter Gibertini satellite-dish (original
recording sent through a DJM 800 mixer)". extra-thanks to freesound.org for making this acessible!

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