MOVEMENT BY OCEANS
Music composition and choreography. 2018.

Movement By Oceans uses oceanographic data as a source for new performances. How do music and dance manifest when a part of their creation is dependent on an external, natural origin?
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Choreographer Julia Heider and me build with nature by using ocean behavior to create new art. Our first collaboration centers around the Arctic Ocean, conveying the awesome silence as well as the ongoing destruction of this supernatural landscape.
 
During a one-week research residence at Satellietgroep Den Haag Julia and I explored new ways of translating oceanographic data into sound and movement. We started collecting facts and points of interest on the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Antarctic oceans before deciding to kick-off the Movement By Oceans project at the Arctic ocean.

The Arctic ocean is has a canary-in-a-coalmine function when it comes to climate change and looking at the deterioration of this icy landscape paints a bleak picture. Every summer the sea-ice recedes only to expand again in the winter. Comparing satellite images from 1984 to satellite images from now shows us that this winter expansion decreases in volume every year. Climate scientist predict that the summers in the Arctic will be ice free somewhere this century, which will lead to flooding and rising temperatures worldwide.