Sonus Maris_V1

Sonus Maris is the result of an Art and Science collaboration with the scientists and engineers of the Water Research Laboratory of the University of New South Wales.
The artist worked with data relating to the movement and deposition of sand on the beach at Narrabeen (in fact this is the world’s longest observation of sand deposition – taken over 43 years) and is accompanied by tidal data and wave height. The artist quantised these data and then assigned a range of tonal values, that are played via audio actuators fitted to four Chaldini plates* and which excite various particulate matter on the plate’s surface. Sonus Maris sonifies and visualises abstract data sets across the four plates and operates at very low frequencies generating a palpable and visceral experience.

Created as part of the Manly Dam Project exhibition, 6 Dec 2020 - 23 Feb 2021 at the Manly Art Gallery & Museum.