Sounds like a secret alien war under ice!
What do you get if you gather as many iPhones as possible and let them play with each other? A huge musical organism that is not only self-organizing, but also evolving with the sound environment.
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SEED:
Signal-to-noise ratio is the relationship between meaningful information (a signal) and external factors (background noise). In a broader theoretical sense, it can refer to seeking out meaning from complexity. We do this in our daily lives, constantly and without thought, each time we take mundane actions and, ultimately, whenever we attempt to make sense of the world we live in. The young Scottish artist Katie Paterson toys with this balance. Whether it’s hacking a mobile phone and burying it deep in the Arctic to capture the dying murmurs of a melting iceberg, or working with astronomers to capture the earliest known light of the universe, Paterson’s work—with a nod to scientific research—explores the curiosities within some of our universe’s infinite blips: remote ones, old ones, ones long gone.
These sculptures by Andy Huntington are renderings of actual sound:
…instead of using code to generate complexity we turned our attention to capturing natural complexity. Taking sound frequencies within the range of human hearing over a short period of time we rendered them in a tangible and permanent manner, as sculptures representing a sample of time.
(via Information Aesthetics)
“…here at the BBC we want to build a sound map of the world - and save endangered sounds from extinction. And who better to help than avid audio consumers like you?”
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