Sonic panoramas

Sonic Panoramas is a visual and sonic journey through California landscapes. From expansive desert to sprawling suburbia, viewers are immersed in fully panoramic landscape imagery. Movement around the space navigates datasets which have been abstracted from the imagery, enacting the underlying data into various sound mappings. Pixels are highlighted as their information generates a dynamic soundscape. This is an initial exploration into the use of landscape as structures for navigable interactive music experiences. It also challenges the viewer to consider the relationship between the digital image and the digitization of landscape that has occurred through anthropogenic land use in southern California.

Video of an installation of this work
CalIT article (web link)
A technical paper published in the ICAT 2005 proceedings
LA Times photo/article