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Collector- a man with an electromechanical street-organ. He walks out to the streets of any city, to any place and just rotates the handle of his instrument. Yet, instead of the repetitious reproduction of the pre-inscribed melodies the street-organ processes into sound the very structure of the atmosphere of a particular site - be it a street, a waste lot, a museum, a factory, or a submarine.

The street-organ consists of two parts - gas-chromatographer and electronic musical instrument. Rotating the handle generates electrical energy that charges the accumulator of small capacity. An air sample is collected into the sample concentrator where the admixture of air is adsorbed by the silica gel. The concentrator gets heated and rotating valve connects the concentrator to the dividing chromatography column and the sample is pushed by the bellows from the concentrator into the column chromatography. The admixture elements in the pumped air get divided based on the speed of their movement and are registered by the photo-ionization detector and other sensors. The resulted pattern of smell is used for generation of sound in the electromechanical street-organ. The device can store and play the collected patterns. This archive can be accessed through a simple screen interface. The sound is born within the instrument itself and is not created from the pre-given samples. We hear the music taken from the air here and now, it consists of the sounds created here and now. The function of the collector is to aggregate and store information that disappears momentarily after the completion of the analysis conducted within a given point in space. The collector can keep the collected patterns and carry them to other places. The collector 's activity will be video documented. As a result, we will have an archive of smells, their sounds, and the situations in which they were collected.