Listening to environmental patterns
Metopia Gas is a portable sonic interface for urban exploration of pollution from cars using sensors and sound processing. The problem of air-pollution is addressed in this work to answer questions,such as, how complex data can be managed in a sound composition using sound processing and machine learning, and how complex data can be experienced though auditory means, in situ.
Interfaces for car pollution
Microscopic matter, invisible to the human perception, traverses our human bodies, through the air we breathe and through our skin, such as data transmission via electromagnetic propagation, dust, virus, bacteria, and other airborne particles such as volatile organic compounds, both biological and anthropogenic.
What we breath have a continuous impact on our bodies and on our behavior. In addition to this, the exposure to toxic clouds of dust caused by natural catastrophe, such as a vulcano eruption, or political conflict where fire arms and explosives are used, with a mixture of different particulate matter entering the human body, mostly anthropogenic, is a worst-case scenario for the human respiratory system.
This work consists of an interface with sensors, sound processing in Pure Data and a machine learning model to handle the incoming data read from the sensors.
Website
Metopia has its own website: Metopia.io
Exhibitions and Symposia
2021
International Conference for the Environmental Humanities, Streams,Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Open Fields: PostSensorium Conference, Riga, Latvia
2020
Ecodata, Rixc Art and Science Festival, Riga, Latvia2019
International Symposium on Electronic Arts, Gwangju, South KoreaOpen Fields Conference, Riga, Latvia
2018
International Computer Music Conference, Kaegu, South KoreaSound Forms Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017
Arts in the environment (Keynote), Helsinki, FinlandOpen Fields Conference, Riga, Latvia
2016
Open Fields Conference, Riga, LatviaInternational Symposium on Electronic Arts, Hong Kong
International Computer Music Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2015
International Conference on Auditory Display, IEM, Graz, AustriaInternational Symposium on Electronic Arts, Vancouver, Canada
2014
Internet of Things: Philosophy: What It Means To be Human in IoT, York, UKInternational Symposium on Electronic Arts, Dubai, UAE