Event Detail

In spring 2017, UC San Diego Music professor and former Qualcomm Institute composer in residence Lei Liang and QI's professor of visualization and virtual reality, Falko Kuester, organized a unique seminar called “Hearing Seascapes: A Collaborative Seminar on the Sonification of Coral Reefs.” It provided graduate students from the music and engineering departments with an opportunity to develop interdisciplinary projects on the topic of coral reefs. Out of that seminar course emerged two multimedia performance works developed by groups of graduate students who will premiere their installations simultaneously in two venues in Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus. The immersive works include:

Erasure, an ambitious, large-scale multimedia installation produced by a robust collaboration among Computer Music Ph.D. student Jacob Sundstrom, Computer Science and Engineering Ph.D. student Vid Petrovic, Music Performance Ph.D. student Fiona Digney, and Ph.D. student in Musical Composition Anthony Vine

Hearing Seascapes, which combines coral reef imagery and audio data to generate sound based on the location and viewpoints of endangered coral reefs, a work by Lauren Jones, a Master's student in Vocal Performance, and Computer Music Ph.D. student Eunjeong Stella Koh, both at UC San Diego.

Hearing Seascapes will be staged in the Calit2 Immersive Visualization Lab (SunCave), and Erasure in the Reconfigurable Media Lab, both on the first floor of QI's Atkinson Hall.