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The Air Through The Ice

 

LARGE SCALE REAL-TIME 3D PROJECTION WITH SURROUND SOUND

photo by Christian Capurro

The latest of a series of works to arise from our Antarctica Arts Fellowship, where we spent 6 weeks aboard the final Antarctic voyage of the icebreaker RV Aurora Australis. This work is a live real-time 3D virtual environment projected on to a 7 metre x 3 metre screen in Stereo 3D with 7.1 surround sound.

The piece puts the visitor on the bow of the ship and presents them with an immersive impression of what it's like to go to Antarctica, losing all perspective of space and time, while realising you're burning a half a million litres of diesel in order to take a million litres of diesel to Antarctica, a far cry from the unspoiled wilderness of the popular imagination.

All the sound and music is made from ambisonic recordings of the ship, the ocean and Antarctica. The visuals are created from detailed LIDAR scans, drone photogrammetry, video and photography of the ship, the ocean and the Antarctic continent we made over 6 weeks of constant work. Rather than a straightforward documentary (though we have done some of those too), this piece is an immersive impressionistic dream, reflecting the unique experience of a total loss of perspective in both space and time that happens as you go further and further south, surrounded by ocean, then by ice, with the sun never quite setting.

With John McCormick, as Wild System. Design, programming, sound recording, sound design and music composition.

 

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