Work-In-Progress: European Cultural Centre - Venice, Italy

European Cultural Centre (Strada Nova, 3659, 30121 Venezia, Italy)

OCEAN DATA 1.4

With early iterations being shown at the European Cultural Centre during the Venice Biennale and Art Basel Miami, this work continues to evolve the artist’s explorations of expressing nature using technology.

In a genre that the artist calls Data Music, the composition played at the entrance of the exhibition uses thousands of notes made by dozens of vocalists and instrumentalists. The immense collection of sounds are orchestrated and triggered by real-time data from nature.

In OCEAN DATA 1.4, the piece uses data -wind speed, wind direction, wave heights, water temperature, and air temperature- from internet-connected buoys off the surrounding coast. As the buoys send data to the computer on display, music starts to play. As the ocean churns, the music evolves to express the movement of the ocean around the gallery.

Simultaneously, the ocean data is used to control lighting at the entrance of the exhibition, making for a multi-sensory atmosphere.

The music features vocalists from The New York Metropolitan Opera, The Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and the artist himself. Instrumental clips were gathered from multiple Grammy Award-winning artists and many undiscovered artists from around the world.

The music can only be heard on location at the gallery or in the artist’s studio.