Antenna Floris Vanhoof 2021

The mechanical instrument as seen at the end of the information age:
In a time when all things are wirelessly connected, I’d like to stand still, see and hear how an object that is not of this time reacts to this. How can a visible object relate to the invisible?

Ever- present waves that fly through the air are picked up by the antenna and translated to the strings of a grand piano.
The antenna receives both distant electromagnetic waves (spherics, thunderstorms,…) and nearby waves (cell phone, motor of a passing car,…).

The collected unseeable taps from the electromagnetic spectrum are converted back into electromagnetic vibrations via coils with copper windings that make piano strings vibrate.