On Friday 6 November at 6:30 pm, at Uqido in Padova (via Garigliano 52), I’m a guest at DataBeers Padova together with Raffaella Rivi. Our talk is called “Ascoltare i dati: la data sonification tra arte, tecnologia e ricerca” (“Listening to data: data sonification between art, technology and research”) and it is about how numbers can be turned into sound. It’s the first time the DataBeers community has had this topic on the programme.
Raffaella is a film-maker and video set designer, I’m a musician, composer and computer scientist. We work together on projects where data, art and research meet. We’ll talk about how a work made of data comes to life: where you start, what role the data plays and what role the art plays, and what we’ve learned along the way. I’ll also play one of my sonifications live.
This is an announcement from the DataBeers Padova community, whom I thank for the invitation. Tickets are sold out, but there is a waiting list: https://lnkd.in/dfrfqqck.
An example of my work: Flow
Flow is a sound project that tells the story of the Lech river through music. I used computer vision on satellite images to extract the shape of a navigable stretch of the river, then simulated 300 stone trajectories inside that area. Each point became two notes, by comparing its position across the width of the river and along the length of the stretch with a musical scale. The harmonies come from how the points are spread in space, more than from traditional composition.
Near the end of the piece a voice enters, taken from the Venetian-dialect poem Femene che le lava by Andrea Zanzotto. The project came out of a collaboration between the University of Padova and the University of Würzburg, supported by Cities And Memory.