'A truly immersive experience of space data touching mind and heart' (Bjoern Frommknecht, EarthCARE Mission Director)
Production: Sonic Ecology
Client: The European Space Agency
HAKURYU is an immersive audiovisual installation featuring a dragon singing a song to earth. It transforms clouds into choirs made from the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable voices, joined by sonic environmental textures.
The experience creates a space for reflection around ecological care, at a moment of accelerating planetary crisis, by reframing climate science as embodied and relational, and most of all human in response.
The experience creates a space for reflection around ecological care, at a moment of accelerating planetary crisis, by reframing climate science as embodied and relational, and most of all human in response.
Hakuryu does this by foregrounding diverse lived perspectives, particularly those forgotten in climate discourse, inviting audiences to slow down, listen deeply, and reconsider their relationship to planetary systems and the shared stories that unite us.
Credits:
Artist: Jamie Perera
Visual programming: Tekja (Jacopo Hirschstein)
Sonification programming: N3xtcoder (Jonathan Moore) & Adrian Lewis
ESA development & production: Bjoern Frommknecht, Peter Bickerton, Shannon Mason & the EarthCARE & JAXA teams
Additional audio development: Danny Bright
Artist: Jamie Perera
Visual programming: Tekja (Jacopo Hirschstein)
Sonification programming: N3xtcoder (Jonathan Moore) & Adrian Lewis
ESA development & production: Bjoern Frommknecht, Peter Bickerton, Shannon Mason & the EarthCARE & JAXA teams
Additional audio development: Danny Bright
Press Links:
The sound of Aeolus will blow you away - The European Space Agency
Finding the sound of Earth’s winds - EJR Quartz
Listen to music 'written' by doomed Aeolus wind-studying satellite - Space.com

