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Acoustic tides

Acoustic tides

Historical materials for the work: text, photographs, audio and video when available.

Roberto Pugliese

Acoustic Tides , water, plexiglass, steel, speakers, audio cables, computer, sound card, amplifier, software, internet connection

Variable dimensions

2022

A recent study that reinforces and further details the previous ones on the melting of ice and conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado-Boulder has established that the rise in sea level caused by global warming is accelerating and by the end of the century about 7% of world population, including the inhabitants of Venice and other Italian coastal cities, risks ending up submerged, with immense damage and inconvenience.

The article appeared on February 12, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was developed using data provided since 1993 by various satellites in orbit around the Earth such as TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason - 2 and Jason-3.

According to the authors, the results of their research represent a qualitative leap in the discussion on climate change, transforming it from a dispute based on hypothetical assumptions to a discussion based on scientific data and objective observations. This occurs above all thanks to the possibility of being able to access precise measurements provided daily by artificial satellites gravitating around the Earth.

In the exhibition space there are 5 pipes filled with water. At the base of each tube is an exciter which produces a sound synthesis, the parameters of which change in real time, based on data from 5 sea level monitoring stations (Valencia, Alicante, Cadiz, A Coruña and Vigo) which they arrive via the Internet.

The work wants to bear witness to the environmental disaster that is taking place before our eyes without politics seriously doing anything to rethink a more sustainable lifestyle.