This art installation creates sounds based on real-time data from a polluted river
Brian House’s new installation takes real-time data from water quality sensors and turns it into sound. The project, titled Animus, is composed of four sheets of metal — iron-oxidized steel, aluminum, copper, and lead — each attached to a microphone and audio transducer, which converts energy into sound. The quality of the sound is manipulated by amplifiers, which receive data from sensors placed in Colorado’s Animus River. As the river changes, so does the sound produced by the installation.
As Prosthetic Knowledge points out, Animus is a comment on environmental degradation. On House’s website, he mentions the 2015 Gold King Mine spill, when a mistake made by the EPA during routine maintenance caused 3 million gallons of wastewater to…
