This is a project that embodies a lot of the things I’ve been researching: mechanical energy, low-tech materials, environmental sensing, and online data aggregation.
Here’s a description from the website:
“~Flow, by Owl Project and Ed Carter, was a tidemill – a floating building on the River Tyne that generated its own power using a tidal water wheel. The building housed electro acoustic musical machinery and instruments which responded to the constantly changing environment of the river, generating sound and data.
~Flow spans artforms, blending contemporary and traditional methods, combining sculpture, cutting edge technology, hand crafted wooden instruments, architecture, precision engineering and electronic music to create an astonishing audio-visual public artwork. Everyone’s experience of ~Flow was unique, as the instruments responded directly to the ever-changing state of the river. The sounds created by each instrument could also be manipulated by visitors to the millhouse. Read more about what was onboard theInstallation here. “
Flow is live-streaming (pun intended!) data on Cosm.