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Electrocology of Sound Travel | Ari Melenciano

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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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http://www.electrocology.glitch.me/

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.

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