Ocean Pandæmonium -The Noisy Plasticscape-

Ayaka Sakakibara

Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression

Abstract

This work is a sound installation that uses plastic debris to consider the interrelationship between people and the ocean, and the history of the ocean. Today, the toxicity of plastic in the marine environment is being debated, and data shows the increase of plastic in the oceans. Although the data accurately represents the facts, it is somewhat cold attitude and we are rarely aware of our personal involvement in the data. Also, the ocean viewed from land is calm and beautiful, and there is a gap between the actual pollution in the ocean and what humans see from land. A critical situation for marine life is occurring in the ocean. We humans cannot live underwater and cannot truly understand the creatures of the sea. The project creates a virtual sea made of bottles to represent the gap between the sea as seen from the land and the sea inside, and emotionally translates the data to appeal to the human senses, looking into the situation and history of the sea through the lens of sound.

Citation

Ayaka Sakakibara. 2024. Ocean Pandæmonium -The Noisy Plasticscape-. Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15027179

BibTeX Entry

@article{nime2024_installations_13,
 abstract = {This work is a sound installation that uses plastic debris to consider the interrelationship between people and the ocean, and the history of the ocean. Today, the toxicity of plastic in the marine environment is being debated, and data shows the increase of plastic in the oceans. Although the data accurately represents the facts, it is somewhat cold attitude and we are rarely aware of our personal involvement in the data. Also, the ocean viewed from land is calm and beautiful, and there is a gap between the actual pollution in the ocean and what humans see from land. A critical situation for marine life is occurring in the ocean. We humans cannot live underwater and cannot truly understand the creatures of the sea. The project creates a virtual sea made of bottles to represent the gap between the sea as seen from the land and the sea inside, and emotionally translates the data to appeal to the human senses, looking into the situation and history of the sea through the lens of sound.},
 address = {Utrecht, Netherlands},
 articleno = {13},
 author = {Ayaka Sakakibara},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression},
 doi = {10.5281/zenodo.15027179},
 editor = {Laurel Smith Pardue and Palle Dahlstedt},
 issn = {2220-4806},
 month = {September},
 numpages = {6},
 pages = {54--59},
 presentation-video = {https://youtu.be/KLEhXtMFkgU},
 title = {Ocean Pandæmonium -The Noisy Plasticscape-},
 track = {Installations},
 url = {http://nime.org/proceedings/2024/nime2024_installations_13.pdf},
 year = {2024}
}