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Signal Station SH 21468 83938; 53.32216°N, 4.68193°W

By  Mia Roberts 2026

filmed by Yannick Hammer

Inspired by Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics and Jack Burnham's Systems Esthetics, the performance explores communication: digital infrastructure mediates rural discourse. Performed at North Stack, the site of an abandoned foghorn station in Holyhead, the work uses a piano wired to respond to pitch detected via microphone. The result is a communication and regulation cycle where a person adjusts, then the computer does. This reaches a point where neither can know who is regulating who. 

 

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