medusae
Year: 2021
Client: Cristina Tarquini, Google Arts and Culture
Nature of the Project: Interactive web sound design.
Sound Design Elements: Underwater recordings, music composition, web integration.
Scientific collaborator: Fabien Lombard (Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche)
Experience this online work here.
Discover why jellyfish populations are booming and the clues their increased numbers can tell us about our changing climate.
Dive into the Mediterranean with digital visual artist Cristina Tarquini and reveal the reasons why we are seeing an increase in jellyfish populations in some of the most beautiful locations in Europe.
The artist has created an interactive story using point cloud and data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the IUCN to explore the effects rising temperatures, overfishing, acidic waters and low oxygen is having on different jellyfish hotspots in the Mediterranean.
For this experience, studio Antoine Bertin has created a meditative score interweaving underwater recordings captured in the Mediterranean exclusively (costal atmospheres, volcanic bubbles). The composition was elaborated using the letters M.E.D.U.S.A.E as notes.
The artist interpreted the data from NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, UNICEF and the IUCN - International Union for Conservation of Nature
