Geomagnetic Record | 1, 2, 3

:: The concept of Geo-magnetic Recordings appears as a myth in the film Dragonfly Eyes by Xu Bing. According to this myth, Geo-magnetic Recordings will cause certain geographical conditions to form, such as by a combination of weather, latitude, and a strong magnetic environment, formations appropriate for the past to replay itself in the form of sounds and visions.

When sounds are produced, can they be captured in any kind of material? The concept of Geo-magnetic Recordings opens up Colbie Fung Ho-pui’s imagination for the ways that sounds are stored. Through her field research at magnetite sites and transmitter stations in Hong Kong and Tokyo, Colbie has investigated how sound is transmitted through listening to stones.

Geo-magnetic recordings create an aim for human active listening. When you become sensitive, the world opens.
Whether an accurate science can be found in the end, all the gains from listening seem to be in the process, not just at the end. ::

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| 1 Echolocation

Echolocation is a sonar system of some animals - listening to the echo through vocalizations, listening to the reflection time to understand the distance of environmental objects and create "sound-photograph".

Perhaps geomagnetic recordings are an auditable echo - vibration scattered on the surface of the object, then after a long wait, the return is already mixed with the characteristics of various objects.


| 2 Plant Radio

At the Tokyo Skytree and Hong Kong Beacon Hill radio station, electromagnetic receivers are used to listen to nearby plants. The characteristics of plants affect the sounds they transmit - various frequencies on trees, soil and stones are able to receive clear radio sounds.

Every time a sound occurs in an environment, some sounds have been quietly stolen by imperceptible small plants.


| 3 排水溝

In the drainage ditch cover of Tokyo Street, many stones that have been kicked are blocked in the gap, and human activity track is recorded in the drainage ditch cover with stones as traces.

I saw on the news in Hong Kong that the pigeon got lost due to geomagnetic interference. The pigeon relies on the small magnet on its mouth to navigate and adapt to the geomagnetic energy to remember the past route.

The activity trajectory generated by biological induction of geomagnetic energy is similar to the principle geomagnetic recording, which may display the past by randomly accumulating the same sound waves, weather and magnetic fields as that day.