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Terence Farnell / Songs on the Horizon
Songs on the Horizon is concerned with translating scientific data into aesthetic work to provide an alternative methodology for interpreting and understanding dynamic climatic systems. This methodology aims to use variations of water pressure to reveal the existence of positive and negative feedback within a system of flow, using both visual and audio indicators to trace the variations over time.
The focus of my research during the past year has been on the impact of global warming and how Chaos Theory influences the modelling of dynamic systems. Study of scientific papers on chaotic systems has revealed that all dynamic systems have feedback loops, where positive feedback is linked to increasing energy in a system and leads to chaos, whereas negative feedback occurs when the energy in a system is decreasing, which then allows the system to stabilise. The focus for my ongoing research has been on the representation of both positive and negative feedback loops, to illustrate that both order and chaos may be found in a dynamic system such as the climate. The Anthropocene indicates a time period when human activity has led to global warming and one consequence of a warming planet is an increase of energy in the hydrological cycle, a situation of positive feedback marked by a rise in evaporation and precipitation. One constant in this cycle is the surface tension of water and this can be used to represent order in a chaotic system. The concept can be activated by the addition of an original soundtrack, which will co-ordinate the visual response with audio suggestion.
Email: terryfarnell56@gmail.com
Photo: Emma Jervis
