does the data speak to you?
Last fall I spoke about the role of rhythm and music in climate communication, and premiered a new composition,
Arctic Sea Ice (2018), for live piano performance, in McCaw Hall at TEDx Seattle.
Performed by Kristina Lee, this piece uses both gesture and pitch to express the satellite record of arctic sea ice.
Arctic Sea Ice (2018), for live piano performance, in McCaw Hall at TEDx Seattle.
Performed by Kristina Lee, this piece uses both gesture and pitch to express the satellite record of arctic sea ice.
Our sense of what is real is often clouded by our preoccupations, passivity, or politics. But when an artwork removes these filters...our perspective shifts. Our vision expands. We feel more connected. -Karen Olsen, Public Art Review
Human behavior is the biggest source of uncertainty in climate predictions.
I mix art and science to promote public reckoning with our changing climate and the associated risks of rampant carbon pollution.
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Infosonics are the audio analogue to infographics: short sound tracks that convey important information in a dataset. Acoustic communication opens many pathways for communicating mood or emotional content. Some data sets convey information that should signal alarm or a sense of urgency. Sound can often do this more effectively than visual media. I make infosonics in the climate realm.
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I also use climate data to inspire longer, more abstract climate soundtracks with digital sound synthesis and ambisonics to create three-dimensional, spatialized sound fields. These sound tracks explore tensions between the time-scales of lived human experience and the time-scales of climate change.
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A passion for public scholarship and
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