Project information
- Output: Sound installation by Ambrose Seddon
- Collaborator(s): Prof Adrian Newton, Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University
- Publication date: May 2019
- Further info: https://ambroseseddon.com/portfolio/tipping-points/
Tipping Points
Tipping Points is a sound installation that emulates the stable and chaotic behaviours of environmental ecosystems.
It features sounds from field recordings made in Dorset, which are manipulated by the computer to imitate the ways in which ecosystem population densities vary, increasing and decreasing in both predictable and erratic ways. Sensors in the gallery space allow participants to influence the growth and decline of the population, and extreme changes might send the system past the tipping point.
The project was funded by the Arts & Science Fund (Bournemouth University). It has appeared at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society, and at the Horniman Museum, London, as part of the Being Human Festiveal 2019.