Forum for Science, Industry and Business
  • Sponsored by:
  • Siemens
  • Siemens
  • Siemens
Search our Site:

Topic (optional):

 

Home Reports Earth Sciences Content

Audible ancient landscapes connect science and art

next article
07.11.2007

‘Ground-breaking’ is a unique installation, offering a linkage between art and science, and a collaboration between environmental scientist Dr Paul Adderley (University of Stirling) and composer Dr Michael Young (Goldsmiths, University of London).

 

It will feature at Prague's forthcoming Event 3 Festival and conference ‘Mutamorphosis: Challenging the Arts and Sciences,’ a radical international gathering of scientists and creative practitioners, including Stelarc.


In the unusual exhibit, a computer explores and represents on screen nearly 10,000 years of soil records, revealing them in different colours and perspectives. The images are accompanied by sounds shaped by the computer using scientific information taken from the soil itself: http://www.sbes.stir.ac.uk/groundbreaking/

‘Ground-breaking’ seeks to illuminate and makes audible ancient landscapes by combining microscopic images of early soil samples with a ‘sonification’ of data associated with them. Other source materials, photographic and phonographic, are brought together with this material in a dynamic, computer-generated audiovisual work that slowly evolves over time.

Michael Young said “‘Ground-breaking’ reflects growing concern – and need for new understandings – about how peoples relate to their environment across the whole world, both today and in the future. We want to see how the content of the vast data sets produced by investigation of climate change can be explored and critiqued in novel ways. The challenge is to realise in image and sound impressions and specific understandings of data, to go beyond mere imaging and 'sonification' and produce a bone fide way to develop creative ideas and give new meanings.”

‘Ground-breaking’ was initiated with funding from the Research Councils UK.

Sarah Empey | Source: alphagalileo
Further information: enter3.org/
www.sbes.stir.ac.uk/groundbreaking/

next article

More articles from Earth Sciences:

nachricht Wilkins Ice Shelf under threat
01.12.2008 | European Space Agency

nachricht Modern day scourge helped ancient Earth escape a deathly deep freeze
01.12.2008 | Imperial College London

B2B Search

Product / Service
Company / Organisation

Latest News

High-speed cutting for medical engineering

02.12.2008 | Medical Engineering

Semantic desktop paves the way for the semantic web

02.12.2008 | Information Technology

Collective solution to accessing the internet via satellite

02.12.2008 | Information Technology

Event News

Dublin to host Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science conference in 2012

28.11.2008 | Event News

ECREA Barcelona 2008

28.11.2008 | Event News

The Automobile – The Transition from Energy Guzzler to Power Supplier

20.11.2008 | Event News