Wave Machine (2.0) is a web-based interactive app that produces a live sonification of real-time sea wave data. Users can choose to listen to site data from a network of marine observation buoys located around the coast of England and Wales.
Exploring the mysterious energies and effects of sounds invoked by ancient symbols and sacred geometry.
In response to the question “What’s happening, exactly?” posed by Folkestone Fringe, and as part of the MagiC Carpets platform, Pent Happenings comprises a series of audio-visual artworks, workshops and events drawing on field studies, geo-scientific data and research concerning Folkestone’s Pent stream and its environs.
A virtual wind chime, created in Pure Data (Pd), reacts to real-time UK Met Office data. Wind speed and direction data from a chosen location is used to trigger a pentatonic scale of synthetic bell-like sounds.
Live sea wave data streamed from a marine observation buoy is transformed into a continuous electronic soundscape. Using the Pure Data (Pd) programming platform, the various sea and wave measurements are used to shape and control the different parameters of sound.