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The Sound of Climate Change - Live Drone From Embassy 35

by Diegetic

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The Sound of Climate Change 55:44
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This is part of a live, collective drone played at the opening of the pop-up art space Embassy 35 in Duluth, Minnesota. Several other musicians participated in the live drone, including Robot Rickshaw, percussionist Sean Hamilton, and clarinetist Alex Hecker. I did not get my Zoom recorder set up in time unfortunately, so I was unable to record the other performers, but here was my contribution to the set, which provided the base of the live drone.

This music is the live sonification of 139 years of average temperature data. Starting in 1880 and ending in 2019, the music here assigns every year's average temperature to a note and plays that for 6 measures.

This creates a long, haunting song that becomes increasing loud, and increasingly powerful, as you reach higher temperatures.

It is clear from listening that temperatures have risen dramatically and radically in the most recent decades. 2014, 2018, 2015, 2017, and 2018 are the five hottest years on record, with 2019 on pace to be one of the five hottest years on record.

A post rock album created from the same data is coming soon.

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released October 9, 2019

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