Heat and the Heartbeat of the City

"Andrea Polli (born 1968) is an environmental artist and writer. Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig is a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, where she is the leader of the Climate Impacts Group. Morgan Barnard is a digital artist and designer working in the areas of public art, interactive media, immersive installations and live cinema. Kurt Ralske is a NYC-based video artist, composer, and programmer.

'Heat and the Heartbeat of the City' is a series of sonifications (musical compositions created by directly translating data to sound) that illustrate these changes focusing on the heart of New York City and one of the city's first locations for climate monitoring, Central Park. The data sonified is actual data from summers in the 1990's and projected data for summers in the 2020's, 50's, and 80's using one of the most detailed atmospheric models of any urban area. As you listen to the compositions, you will travel forward in time at an accelerated pace and experience an intensification of heat in sound." -- From Turbulence