This installation takes real-time data available on internet APIs that own marine sensors distributed around the world. With a set of coordinates (latitude, longitude) the software gets the height and period of the waves in that specific location to then reconstruct the data in an analog form. The extracted data is mapped to motion which generates analog sound; dislocating a portion of the ocean and transposing it into the gallery space.

Remote oceanographic data, acrylic drums, metal beads, custom electronics and software.

Transcoding is the process of converting data from one form to another; digital to analogue or analogue to digital. This technological resource is commonly used to decrease the size of a file in order to allow an efficient data-transfer or to make a cluster of information compatible with another platform. realtime_wave_transcoder appropriates this process and expands its formal use. The installation takes realtime data available on internet APIs that own marine sensors distributed around the world. With a set of coordinates (latitude, longitude) the software gets the height and period of the waves in that specific location to then reconstruct the data in an analogue form. The extracted data is mapped to motion which generates analogue sound; dislocating a portion of ocean and transposing it into the gallery space.

Real-time Wave Trans-coder

Remote oceanographic data, acrylic drums, metal beads, custom electronics and software.

2015-08-01