Climate Catastrophe as Environmental Music: The Aral Sea
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Climate Catastrophe as Environmental Music : The Aral Sea. / Bach, Anders; Munkholm, Johan Lau.
Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, New York City, NY, USA. Michigan Publishing, 2019. s. 76-79.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Konferencebidrag i proceedings › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Climate Catastrophe as Environmental Music
T2 - The Aral Sea
AU - Bach, Anders
AU - Munkholm, Johan Lau
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This paper presents a prospective cross-disciplinary project dedicated to unearthing audible traces of human industry by constructing a sound installation in the Aral Sea, Uzbekistan. The installation will provide necessary data to correlate the destructive salinity and temperatures of the Aral Sea with the water’s electric conductivity. This information will be used as a primary input for a generative music installment using sound synthesis; a roundtrip voltage-to-voltage system. The concept of the Anthropocene – a proposed geological epoch in which humans are directly interfering with the planetary archive – serves as framework for a discussion of how auditory mediation unveils an experimental opportunity to engage the ominous reality of climate change in a constructive manner, making the sound ecology of the world not only archival, but procedural. The Anthropocene represents itself in electronic music by challenging the general conception of environmental music, a genre that now has very different connotations than at the time of its origin.
AB - This paper presents a prospective cross-disciplinary project dedicated to unearthing audible traces of human industry by constructing a sound installation in the Aral Sea, Uzbekistan. The installation will provide necessary data to correlate the destructive salinity and temperatures of the Aral Sea with the water’s electric conductivity. This information will be used as a primary input for a generative music installment using sound synthesis; a roundtrip voltage-to-voltage system. The concept of the Anthropocene – a proposed geological epoch in which humans are directly interfering with the planetary archive – serves as framework for a discussion of how auditory mediation unveils an experimental opportunity to engage the ominous reality of climate change in a constructive manner, making the sound ecology of the world not only archival, but procedural. The Anthropocene represents itself in electronic music by challenging the general conception of environmental music, a genre that now has very different connotations than at the time of its origin.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/fulcrum.jq085n56r
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 76
EP - 79
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 International Computer Music Conference, New York City, NY, USA
PB - Michigan Publishing
ER -
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