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Ground Station is a sound installation that composes music in real time from the current locations of orbiting Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites.
 
In Ground Station, the old technology of the piano merges with the newer military technology of satellite positioning to create musical compositions that transcend the technologies themselves.  In the installation, a computer and GPS receiver decode the locations of orbiting satellites. This data is then passed through an artist-designed algorithm live and ultimately played live on a Yamaha Disklavier grand piano.
 
The resulting score, in the words of the artists, is an "a continuous aural artifact of the technological time in which we live".