Paul Baule - Passeri Polyphony [Single-Screen Demo]

Passeri Polyphony is a prototype for an immersive experience portraying a shocking reality about the state of our planet: the once vast orchestra of life, the soundscape of the natural world, is turning silent.
The project invites its audience to engage with a ‚living‘ data visualisation, an emergent Murmuration of 17000 ‚flying‘ audio-waveforms that statistically represent 17 of the UK‘s most endangered songbird species.
Based on the population development of these species from 1967 to 2020, the project makes visible and audible how the soundscape of birdsongs in the UK has dramatically changed over time - how an initially diverse and lively symphony has become increasingly homogeneous and silent.