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The mirrors with the swing bridge visible in the foreground. The striking forms of the sound mirrors have attracted artists and photographers. British artist Tacita Dean created a film inspired by the complex. The band Turin Brakes featured the mirrors on some of their album covers.
Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. [ 1 ]
Tucker's work was superseded by the development of radar, which made sound-ranging using the great concrete mirrors obsolete. Some known locations for the sound mirrors were documented in a series of photographs by Joe Pettet-Smith in 2018. [10] Continuing Application of Tucker’s Work
Bookworks.org.uk: Tacita Dean: "Teignmouth Electron", a book of photographs of the remains of the vessel on Cayman Brac, published in 1999 Archived page from www.teignmouthelectron.org (site no longer accessible), with photographs of the boat in 1991, March 2003 and January 2004 (Ian Murray/Nicky Watson)
The acoustic mirror A sketch of the acoustic mirror. Il-Widna is a large acoustic mirror located in Magħtab, Malta.' [1] The colloquial name of the acoustic mirror refers to Ear in Maltese. The mirror is 200 feet (61 m) long, approximately the same design as the sound Mirror in RAF Denge. [2]
The Maltese sound mirror is known locally as "the ear" . The Dungeness mirrors, known colloquially as the "listening ears", consist of three large concrete reflectors built in the 1920s–1930s. Their experimental nature can be discerned by the different shapes of each of the three reflectors: one is a long curved wall about 5 m (16 ft) high by ...
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