Dornen, lomi

A Sudden Burst of Noise is a study in the equivalence between rotational frequency, material structure and sonic form. Following the core idea of the Brutalism project, architecture and infrastructure are treated not as backdrop but as structural agents. The radio telescope, its reinforced-concrete body, its rotating mechanics and its scientific function, serves as the compositional framework: rotational movement becomes rhythm, structural tension becomes texture, measured cosmic data becomes sound.

Dornen and Lomi work from astronomical measurement data translated into audio and combined with field recordings made at the site itself, the sound of interacting with exposed concrete, of mechanical resonance and electromagnetic presence. They process these elements into compositions that oscillate between abstraction and physical density.

The result is not a documentary of the site but a sonic architecture derived from it. Each track answers to a structural component, axis, mirror, descent, radiation, and the record unfolds as a sequence of material states, from reduction and erosion to rotation and amplification. The vinyl, the label notes, captures a site-specific research process as a physical object.