Electrocology of Sound Travel | Ari Melenciano
Curated by NEW INC
This project explores the relationship between planetary topographies, ecologies in the midst of quarantine, and abstract soundscapes.
Ari Melenciano has materialized this relationship through an audio-visual webVR platform. Each of the 5 pages are dedicated to major cities around the world. Imagery is captured from Google Earth to showcase their local topographies in WebVR. Portals throughout the webVR experience share sounds of a modular synthesizer where Ari has developed algorithms to convert the cities' climate data during COVID-19's quarantine into voltage-controlled current for the synthesizer to amplify into abstract soundscapes.
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Artist: Ari Melenciano
Title of the work: Electrocology of Sound Travel
Year: 2020
Medium/Format: WebVR, sound design via modular synthesizer
Contains content: Google Earth
Duration of the work: ~10min
Language: English
This artwork was created in the context of ENTER project, an initiative of Onassis Foundation. Onassis Stegi and Onassis USA give artists from all around the world 120 hours to create from home a series of new original commissions; sharing their new reality. Let’s ENTER.
