The Orbit Pavilion: Listening to Earth’s satellites

Share: When first approaching this sculpture, museum-goers are revealed a glistening shell-shaped aluminum pavillion, with ethereal melodies emanating from inside. The shadows and sounds together make for a hauntingly beautiful experience on the ground of the Huntington Library in San Marino. With two acts, The Orbit Pavilion audio compositions glide visitors first though the interpretation of what the International Space Station and 19 earth satellites currently sound like circling the Earth, then played the artist’s one minute rendition of the ecological missions of those satellites …