The soniDOME art-science collaboration spans data development and analysis through data display, interaction, open source software toolkit distributions and public engagement through new creative sound compositions, interactive installations/exhibitions and publications. soniDOME expands the sensoria of existing methods of complex data interpretations from visual forms to interactive soundscapes for the exploratory interpretation of structures, interactions and dynamics of remote microbial communities.
The soniDOME Project is moving forward with our collaborative research endeavour and into expanded research and outcomes. To date, we have made progress in three areas of investigation and as extensions to our original data sonification/interaction research plan: data acquisition and development; methods development and research; and creative and scientific outcome/dissemination. Details on these undertakings follow:
Data acquisition & development
- Identification and enrichment of relevant datasets/sources of deep ocean microbial ecology for comparison of genomic, proteomic and physical data sound transcoding from an exemplary microbial extremophile of varying strains and depth samples.
- Identification and enrichment of relevant datasets/sources of deep ocean microbial ecology for comparison of sound transcoding from exemplary deep biosphere data samples and sediment stratigraphies.
Methods development & research
- Development, programming and application of custom software methods for transcoding and sonification of genomic, biochemical and physical data from an exemplary microbial extremophile of varying strains and depth samples.
- Development, programming and application of custom software methods for transcoding and sonification of exemplary deep biosphere data samples and sediment stratigraphies.
- Initial platform applications for 3D sound and augmented reality interactions with sonified deep ocean microbial datasets.
Creative & scientific outcome/dissemination
- Configuration of an ecological narrative as a sound composition framework for sonified genome & protein sequences from a deep ocean microbial extremophile species.
- Realization of creative and scientific outcome dissemination at a significant international scientific conference from early results.