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.

I also revisited the SwissFEL, a free electron laser about a kilometre long. It’s a long way to the start if you want to walk along it … 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!