Marine Remix
On Friday 18 September 2026, I took part in ‘Marine Remix’ with Turner Sims, University of Southampton and Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute, as part of British Science Festival. The event was an evening of electronic music, inspired by four pieces of marine research.
As part of the event I created and shared four audiovisual environments to accompany recorded speeches from each of the researchers. Each of the four audiovisual works included a custom-coded visuals, audio soundscapes and additional improvised live musical elements. Each unique work too inspiration from the research it accompanied, aiming to creatively present and represent ideas, themes and concepts within the work. Some of the pieces included audio-reactive visual elements, and others included visual-reactive generative audio elements, where the music sonified processed visual research materials.
Additionally, in the months leading up to the event, I worked with young producers and electronic musicians to engage with the research and create their own responses to it, through a remix pack and performance mentoring for young disabled musicians. Their work was also shared as part of the event.
Data-moshing whale movement with acrylic paintings of the ocean, the movement being sonified into spectral granular synthesis, also visually layered into the image
A digital pinhole camera captures trails of movement and resonated incoming audio, periodically releasing still images and burst of spectrally accumulated sound: an audio-visual concept drawn from the rings found in otoliths
Shifting colours react to the amplitude and frequency content of vocoded geophone recordings which capture the interaction of whale and human noise.
Video of microscopic coral movements are used to generate sound by generatively cycling through cells/slices of video and sampled sound.