Music has an important role to play in climate crisis discourse, offering a sonic pathway to bridge the gap between data, understanding, reflection, and action.

Dark Oceanography integrates climate science with experimental music, modelling generative oceanic systems in spatial audio and percussion. In this new work by Kate Milligan, Louise Devenish, and Aaron Wyatt, the live performances of three percussionists converge with the 63-channel Meyer Constellation in the David Li Sound Gallery, creating a dynamic spatial instrument that sonifies the future impact of global warming in the ocean.

Collaboratively developed by a team of artistic and scientific researchers, this piece is part of the Sonic Vocabularies: Climate Weather and Music project. Led by The Sound Collectors Lab in partnership with ARC Centre of Excellence for the Weather of the 21st Century, the development of this work has been supported by Monash University Performing Arts Centres.