Sound The Mound
Translating ecological data into sensory experiencesIn this course, students will address complex issues of climate, sanitation, consumer behavior, landfill reclamation, public parks, cellular technology, public art, sonification and more. We will work with three partners: Freshkills Park, a reclaimed landfill in Staten Island that will be almost three times the size of Central Park (2200 acres); Arable Labs, a remote monitoring technology developed for crop management that uses sensors and cellular data to measure and communicate rainfall, crop water demand, water stress, microclimate, and canopy biomass; and Gaynor McCown Expeditionary High School. Students in this course will build upon a prototype called “Botanical Transmissions” that emerged from a 2016 Transdisciplinary Studio, which translates data into music-by-and-for-plants using a genetic algorithm that responds to the health of the plants at the park, and will develop additional concepts that take inspiration from this prototype.
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