Dark Oceanography

Performance collaboration

Dark Oceanography integrates climate science with experimental music, modelling generative oceanic systems of eddies in spatial audio and percussion. In this new work, the live performances of three percussionists converge with multi-channel spatialised electronic sound, creating a dynamic spatial instrument that sonifies the future impact of global warming in the ocean by submerging the audience in sound. Following the pathways of eddies from the Eastern Australian Current through the Southern Ocean and across the globe, scientific data informing this work is drawn from the location of each performance, foregrounding local knowledge and experiences of ocean climate change.

Collaboratively developed by a team from The Sound Collectors Lab and ARC Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather including artists Louise Devenish (performer/director) Kate Milligan (composition), Erin Coates (film), Aaron Wyatt (music technologist) and scientist Navid Constantinou (oceanographer).


PERFORMANCES

27 July 2025: David Li Sound Gallery, Monash University (concert version)


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