< previous artist | next artist > Jens Brand (Germany) Exhibited Artwork: Global Player 《地球播放器》 (2004) Artist Statement: 藝術家陳述 The Global Player functions like a regular CD or record player. However, instead of vinyl or CDs it plays nothing but the earth. The player knows the positions of more than a thousand satellites and enables you, by the use of a virtual three-dimensional planetary model, to listen to an imaginary trace of a selected flying object in real time. 來自德國的萊曼•布蘭德(Jens Brand)創造了一個看似普普通通的CD或MP3唱機，但其實內有玄機，唱機所播放的正正是我們的「地球」。 地球播放器(G-Player和 G-pod) 確認了超過一千個衛星的位置，然後以一個地球的立體模型表，讓我們實時收聽一曲地球之歌。 Technical statement: 技術陳述 Essentially, the BRAND G-Player Products play the world in the same way a record player plays records. To be precise, we are scratching across the earth's topography with the help of two databases: on the one hand, we are using a topographic databases that contains the altitudes of every little dip, mountain and valley on our lovely little planet; on the other had we are using a dynamic database that allows us to calculate the orbits of any public-use satellite. These two databases are then combined. In this way, every satellite becomes a different needle, which sonically scratch across the world, playing it in a different direction and with a different speed. In this way, we say, 'every orbit is a song'. 基本上，地球播放器 播放「地球」就如普通唱機播放唱片一樣。根據兩個數據庫， 地球播放器閱讀出地球的地形：一方面，我們正利用包含海拔的每一個小傾角、山地和谷地的地形數據庫；另一方面 ，我們使用了動態的數據庫，讓我們能夠計算出任何公共用途衛星的軌道。這兩個數據庫結合起來成強大的資料庫讓觀眾細聽源自地球的聲音。地球播放器讓觀眾能任意選擇任何一個公開列出的衛星；比如說，你挑選了國際空間站，而國際空間站現正越過喜馬拉雅山，那由你按選擇的那一刻開始，便能沿空間站的軌道以聲波橫跨西藏。這樣，每一顆衛星成為了不同的唱針，以不同的方向和不同的速度播放世界。因此我們說：「每個軌道也是一首歌」。 < back to artist home