She could be an actor, a nanny, a bus driver or an organiser of off-beam nights that bring outsiders together to dance or knit.
And the voice of nature a river's current, a frog's bellow at the forest edge blending with the sound of our own breath as we stand in the dark and ponder a beam touching the night air as a hand touches flesh.
It was not all beams and beery nights.
The rats lounged in the long tubes of bamboo that served as house beams and spent nights there sharpening their teeth.
At the observation post, an Air Force ground spotter was using an infrared beam visible through night-vision goggles to point the pilot toward the intended target.
Hens clucked and fluffed their feathers from the shed, where the tractors were parked, and a cat scampered across the beam of orange night light cast from the creosote pole.
The top panel in each figure shows the RTI map (vertical beam) for the night being analyzed.
Click here for a full credits list and watch Chance help Kanye during an incredible rendition of "Ultralight Beam" on "Saturday Night Live". .
These first two nights, however, beam a laser at Kraftwerk's nuts and bolts: their lesser-known album-track sound experiments.
There used to be four long "pencil lights" in the crown which were supposed to beam out into the night in four spreading ways, but they didn't beam, being 1250 ft. above the sidewalk.
