AMBIENT² translates the soundscape of Harakka Island in Helsinki into music through a computer-driven generative process. We are born into a familiar sound environment that becomes our baseline, making everything else seem strange or peculiar. This project is about reinterpretation—by rendering the same soundscape as music, it reveals unexpected and uncanny elements. Video of the interactive sound installation.
The music created by AMBIENT² does not conform to any traditional note system. Instead, it reconstructs the source material’s frequencies using synthetic instruments in a spectral musical framework. The result is a composition that never exactly repeats itself; the observed environment acts as the composer, generating its own unique tonal system. This music is not random but governed by its inherent rules.
Rooted in ambient aesthetics, the piece blurs the boundaries between ambient sound and ambient music, seamlessly merging the musical space with the surrounding world.
AMBIENT² was featured at the La-Bas Biennale 2012 and exhibited at the Sound Art Gallery Akusmata.