In Dane Mitchell’s Future Eclipse (transmission), a large brass discone antenna suspended above the Piazza functions as an FM radio station, producing a field of transmission that stretches beyond the visible — entering the FM ‘narrowcasting’ bandwidth as a transmitted radio signal. Spreading itself thin and wide across the airwaves, the transmission can be heard through an accompanying pair of brass sculptural discs, which function as a receiver.

The 6-hour broadcast was produced by Dane Mitchell in collaboration with seminal Japanese composer and musician Keiji Haino. The composition is devised from one list among the hundreds built by Mitchell for his ongoing project Post hoc, which is made up of unfathomably long spoken word lists which call up vanishings, extinctions and disappearances. The list broadcast here, titled Future Solar Eclipses, reads the dates and times when the Sun will be eclipsed over the next 3000 years.

Keiji Haino’s percussive accompaniment is performed on a Polygonola, a ‘two dimensional’ instrument which enfolds and at times subsumes the reading of the list. Throughout the composition, his summoning of vibrations — in theory and practice — seek to both incapacitate and complicate the logic of list making, whilst ratcheting up the anxiety eclipses once caused.