I'm launching a satellite to make music from the ionosphere. But what would that look like, in a dramatic sense? In an evocative sense?

In a perfect world, I could just ask a couple of children to draw me their impression of what 'a satellite making music out of the ionosphere' would look like. Since we live in a perfect world, I did that.

The absolute coolest thing to come out of this was a new Calliope tagphrase: 'Around the world in 48 beats'.

 
 'Around the world in 48 Beats', by Ivy

and

 
'Project Calliope', by Ivy

and

 
 'Logo', by Max

and

 
 'I can't draw', by Sandy

Feel free to post your own pictures in the comments section!

Alex

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