SONIC ARTWORK

A collaboration with artist Victoria Evans, this location based sonic artwork produces haunting melodies from tidal data.

VISIT TIDESONG

Sonified Data

Tidesong makes audible the rise and fall of the tide and its relationship to the earth, the moon and the sun. Through this collaboration Ray Interactive helped Victoria to develop aspects of her work into a mobile web app.

Location Based Web App.

Listen to the sonification of the tidal data from your closest tidal measurement location or choose from 700 locations around the UK. Granting the app. access to the phones motion sensors allows for personal modulation of the audio.

VISIT TIDESONG.APP

Explore the Map

The Web App collects Tidesongs when and where they happen. With the interactive map on tidesong.app you can listen to and compare tidesongs created by others.

Bespoke Motion Graphic

The graphic motif was created from a 3D photoscan of a beach on the Scottish Isle of Mull.

An animated version features on the desktop home page.

CREDITS

Artist: Victoria Evans

Production: Ray Interactive

Design: Brendan McCarthy

Programming: Sam Healy

Data: National Oceanography Centre and the UK Hydrographic Centre with coding assistance provided by Colin Bell

Tidesong was made possible through the support of the Creative Informatics Small Research Grants.

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