Music By Oceans

Is there music in the behavior of our oceans and how does it sound? Does it have a magnificent quality or is it chaotic and alienating? Does the Atlantic Ocean sound different from the Indian Ocean? And how does music manifest itself when it’s creation depends on an external, natural influence?

Music By Oceans uses oceanographic data as a source from which new music is created.
Collaborating with professors Erik van Sebille and Will de Ruyter of the University of Utrecht I created an array of new compositions based on data measured by ARGO-floats.

Some works are direct data-sonifications while others are created using various approaches in which composer and nature work together on the same level. In October 2017 eight of these pieces where premiered by a string-quartet consisting of: Sarah-Lynn Huizing, Cecilia van Berkum, Teresa Jarve and Gied van Oorschot.

As a continuation of this research I am working together with choreographer Julia Heider on the Movement By Oceans project where we will translate the data into music and dance.