Rare_Earth
An immersive sound and visual presentation for IRCAM, Paris, March 2023.
This project makes visible the entanglement of technology with the natural ecology which provides its source material.
During the work we witness a real-time mapping of the 17 rare-earth elements; an analysis which, alongside associated data, directly informs a soundscape generated via modular and granular synthesis. This is accompanied by an absurdist narration, informed by consumer reviews from a popular online retailer and generated by a recurrent neural network and trained on Tensor Flow.
The project is intended as an Interface of the geological and human-made and a reminder that technology is that which is made of the raw materials of the earth.
To view an excerpt from the instalation, click here.
For more information on the Rare_Earth presentation:
https://forum.ircam.fr/collections/detail/forum-workshops-paris-2023-abstracts-of-presentations-and-workshops/
https://forum.ircam.fr/article/detail/rare-earth/