What is this project about? Scientists of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR181 „Energy transfers in Atmosphere and Ocean“ collaborate with artists from different disciplines to approach the fundamental research in climate science in a new way.

NEWS:

  • May 2022: Finally two presentations of our collaboration took place. Read here the full article.
  • June 2021: We met for another music collaboration with our Composer Victor Gonzales from HfMT Hamburg and talked about first ideas for an „Earth Symphony“. Read here more about the meeting.

 

LATEST PROJECTS

  • Music Collaboration

Artist: Victor Guiterrez

Scientists: Valentino Neduhal, Prof. Nedjeljka Žagar

Idea: “Earth Symphony”

The idea of the musical project is to create an “Earth Symphony” from Earth System scientific data of the TRR 181. Therefore, the idea is to translate global atmospheric and oceanic data into oscillations, manifesting as frequencies or amplitudes, before these again are translated into sound waves. By applying this process, the project wants to make it possible to hear the state of the atmosphere and the ocean at any given time. Central to the artist´s idea of “music in space” is to feel how waves are moving in space and by this sensual experience learning about the behavior of waves and the interactions between ocean and atmosphere as well as making paramount processes such as climate change experienceable through music.

  • Virtual Reality Project              

Artist: Lena Biresch

Scientists: Stephan Juricke, Nicolas Dettling, Markus Reinert, Chen WangIdea:

„H2Ocean“

Virtual Reality Experience by Lena BireschI want to translate a wave model into a virtual reality experience. The user will be in the middle of the wave/ocean, can swim through it or fly over it, and use a multifunctional controller to change the parameters that affect the wave or its image (e.g., the wind speed or the „shape“ of the winds, the depth of the water, or the density of the mesh on which the calculations are performed). Lena uses data from Nicolas from a shallow water model

  • Theater Project „Die weiße Wand“       

Artist: Woody Mues

Scientists: Luby

Idea: “Seemansgarn” and Rogue Waves

Woody plans a theater play (improvisation) with the working title “Seemansgarn” (sailors yarn)– German expression for sailors who like to tell a lot of stories and you don´t know if they are true. He wants to include Rogue Waves and plans on presenting a dialogue between two actors at Thalia Theater in Hamburg (presentation in April 2022 in Nachtasyl, Thalia Theater) in a fairytale atmosphere theater play.

  • Theater Project „tba“     

Artist: Dor Aloni

Scientists: Florian Noethen, Camilla Nobili, Ole Pinner

Idea: Dor is interested in mathematics and planning on writing a theater play. He already interviewed Camilla and Florian. Work in progress. It is planned to have a presentation in November/December 2022.

 

FINISHED PROJECTS

  • Theater play: Oceanview Suite

OCEANVIEW SUITE is the monologue of a woman who, disgusted by humankind, has retreated to a hotel room with an ocean view. There, in this place of decadence and alienation, she tries to overcome the border to the non-human. In the process, she encounters inner waves several kilometres high and heavy turbulence, which causes the deepest and coldest layers of herself to rise to the surface.

  • Music: Sonification of ocean energetics

This project shows the so-called sonification process: using data from ocean observations and climate modeling and put in into music. Composer Pedro Gonzales and Oceanographer Nils Brüggemann worked together and this is the musical output of the collaboration. Here you can hear first musical results of this collaboration: