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Vandermeulen’s “oceanographic symphonic experience” started with an ocean color image of Río de la Plata. He was struck by its complexity: the beautiful sediment plumes spilling off the shore, the “crazy swirls and whirls” he followed in the bay, and the large sediment plume that seemed to spiral everywhere. Vandermeulen had a thought – what would this image sound like? “I started by extracting transactive data from satellite images. I looked at the patterns of the red, green, blue channels,” he said. “Clearly, they weren’t traveling in the same direction. There was something there.” In order to use the data, he rescaled the individual color channels and assigned musical notes to express changes in the image. “The data itself, you’re listening to it as it exists. The variations are creating a natural palette for the ear,” he said.
Hear 'Sounds of the Sea' in Ocean Scientists' Music Project
This World Oceans Day enjoy a moment of zen with a symphonic tour of the ocean.
There are several more videos in the link that explain what they did in the video. It's kind of cool.
