After a great meeting with Tim in Huntington Beach in which we traded data, methods, and code – and started planning our collaborative installation, Tim went off to meet with colleagues in MBARI and I met with Ayala where she described her experiment ideas on hummingbird audition.
Back in Rome, I am working on the first ECAT sound installation – a collaboration with landscape architect, Annalisa Metta – called ‘When Rome Moves to Tunis’. The installation will express and predict the progress of climate change in terms of the atmospheric light and sound of the city.
Concurrently, I composed a song cycle for tenor and piano called Laserpithium when sets a remarkable text by Pliny the Elder describing the extinction of silphium as a result of overgrazing – the first known recorded species extinction.