Like a dream come true with a dream come true, I was in Zürich at the Paul Scherrer Institute, with my long-term collaborator Thomas Lucas. PSI has a plethora of accelerators, including a very old-school Cockcroft Walton proton generator, which still works, shiny and new, even though it was built around 1962!

There’s also a 200 meter wide “compact” synchrotron about to take off. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen, with tiny powerful magnets that can fit in the palm of one’s hand. There’s also the SwissFEL, a free electron laser about a kilometre long … With my EM field microphone / detector, I was able to feel the fields and literally pick up the “songs” of the Klystrons that drive the electrons through this. But what does one call a group of such high energy pulse devices, a “Symphony of Klystrons”? This experience and experiment has opened up a dimension of sound and composition possibilities – soon to be made into actualities in the Technisce Gallerie!

And for supper, a visit to Cabaret Voltaire, just to put things back into context Yama la lLakuta la Ola Nana dream come true who yu!