Paul Schutze
Second Site Disc 1
1997
ambient

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 First Prologue 1:02
2 The dial is only visible by starlight 1:17
3 Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the... 0:39
4 The image of the sun indicates the sun's position as it passes t... 1:16
5 There is a brass pointer fitted with sights and pivoted to the c... 0:50
6 This chamber is no longer accessible to visitors 1:01
7 Access to any part of the engine is by steps which offer vantage... 0:50
8 Suspended in the hum of history 1:11
9 Originally cross wires stretched across each hemisphere, East to... 1:18
10 The ramped stair to the North of the two drums vanishes at thirt... 1:04
11 These steps enable the observer to see all aspects of the brass 0:40
12 There is a huge calibrated sundial on each of its sides 1:00
13 This chamber is filled with garden tools and broken furniture 1:01
14 The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening ey... 1:00
15 This engine is primarily a calculator, though altitudes may be o... 1:00
16 It is inscribed with concentric circles, at the centre of which 1:02
17 The calibrated parts are raised on three-foot pillars 1:01
18 The pink masonry charges the twilight with a faint sound 1:00
19 Another slope with stairs for the reading of figures 1:01
20 This engine is now only visible in twilight 1:01
21 Here is an immense brass circle suspended vertically from stone 0:49
22 Two hemispheres representing the sphere of heaven comprise the t... 1:11
23 This wall describes accurately the North/South meridian 1:00
24 There are pillars at the centre of each circular wall each open 0:50
25 First Memory 1:10
26 The sky has shaped this place 1:01
27 Here I find a central iron pole with hooks facing to the North, 1:00
28 A shadow is cast to the West before noon 0:59
29 The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum 1:02
30 Days and nights are measured here and in the measuring seem long... 1:01
31 The whole brass circle can be revolved around its vertical diame... 1:00
32 A lofty but narrow chamber is contrived in the thickness of the 0:37
33 A further series of steps is only visible during the vernal equi... 0:24
34 Hold the machine in the vertical plane 1:01
35 Visible portions of the celestial sphere are represented by this... 1:02
36 To move through these structures is to set them in motion 0:59
37 The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the v... 1:00
38 A shadow is cast to the East after noon 1:00
39 These calibrations are no longer clearly visible 1:00
40 Another flight of observation steps and the sense of quiet rotat... 1:01
41 I study the vaults of a shell in which we float 1:00
42 Twenty-seven degrees thirty-seven seconds 1:01
43 The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows 1:00
44 The floor and walls are calibrated to read altitude and azimuth 1:00
45 These are the cool engines of celestial map-making 1:01
46 Here is the Supreme Engine 1:00
47 The sun seen through the pair of brass rings is used by the bar 1:01
48 A pointer indicates on three arms; West, North and East 1:00
49 Here was the Supreme Engine 0:59
50 The engine of amplitude has a function which is no longer known 2:01
51 This engine is a rectangular brass plate 1:00
Total time 50:03