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Volcano Dance A Creative Union of Science, Technology & Art. Tom Fryer (DANTE, UK) TERENA NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2010 Arts and Humanities Session Monday, 31st May 2010. Volcano Eruptions: The Local Effects. Evacuation; effects on health of local population; loss of life. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Volcano DanceA Creative Union of Science, Technology & Art
Tom Fryer (DANTE, UK)TERENA NETWORKING CONFERENCE 2010
Arts and Humanities Session
Monday, 31st May 2010
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Volcano Eruptions:The Local Effects
Destruction of homes, property, farmland…
Evacuation; effects on health of local population; loss of life
Power outages, water contamination
Loss of livelihood
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Volcano Eruptions:The Effects Further Afield
Weather and climate
Economic disruption
Air travel restrictions
Acid rain
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Predicting Volcano Eruptions:Methodologies
Seismic activity
Gas emissions
Ground deformation
Thermal monitoring
Hydrology
Remote satellite sensing
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Volcano Sonification:Seismograms to Melodies
To make volcano seismograms audible
To correlate seismic stages with sound patterns / melodies
To discover the “signature tune” of an eruption
Italy, 2001
University of Catania and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN)
Sonification of Mount Etna
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Data Sonification:The Process
Data sonification is the representation of data by sound (waveforms, melodies)
The acoustic counterpart of graphs
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Converting the Seismogram to Music
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Etna Sonification Score:The score inherits the same characteristics (regularities, behaviour) of the seismogram
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Sonification on Computing Grids
Grids provide the necessary computing power and distributed data storage:
EGEE, EELA/EELA2 and EUMEDGRID supported by GÉANT, EUMEDCONNECT and RedCLARA
40 seconds of seismic data =A one-second seismic sample generates 120
MB of data.
Converting seismic data into sound waves is computationally demanding.
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From Science to ‘Singing Volcanoes’
Ecuador, 2006
Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL) joins sonification project: Mount Tungurahua
Music from Mt. Tungurahua played at Launch of Ecuador’s National Research and Education Network (CEDIA)
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Volcano scores are also musically interesting!• They inherit the richness of nature• They can be played by any musician
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From ‘Singing’ to ‘Dancing Volcanoes’
Washington D.C., 2008
‘Singing Volcanoes’ sparks ‘The Mountain’ Dance Performance by CityDance Ensemble
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Philippine choreographer, Jason Garcia Ignacio, inspires involvement of Philippine researchers in Sonification Project:
Volcano Monitoring & Eruption Prediction Division, PHIVOLCS, Philippines
Mounts Pinatubo and Mayon
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The Mountain: From Volcano to Stage
Website: www.volcanodance.org
Music based on seismograms of 4 volcanoes: Etna, Tungurahua, Pinatubo, Mayon); Choreography by Jason Garcia Ignacio
The Mountain: world premiere 10-11 Sept 2009, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA
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Volcano SonificationThe Status Today
The work continues:
Researchers have started to identify correlations between seismograms and volcanic activity, including eruptions.
The involvement of more volcanoes will contribute to attempts to discover volcano signature tunes.
