LW24

Commissioned by National Gallery Singapore and Arts Fission (2015)

LW24 is a sculptural auditory display, playing a sonification of the future climate in South-East Asia. Weather forecasts 2015-2045 (courtesy of the Tropical Marine Sciences Institute, NUS) are time-compressed into 55 minutes and spatialised over 21 channels: the auditory display is a sonic map. Four movements are interspersed by a child’s narration of how she imagines growing up in a world of climate change. This ‘radio play’ effect brings a human perspective onto the large temporal climactic developments being sonified, which are as hard to grasp as they are terrifying.

“When I was born, my father was thirty-five years old. Today, I’m eleven…The climate is described by the atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind strength, humidity, and precipitation – that is, rainfall. A day of rain corresponds to the sound of a plucked string. The third part starts the first of January twenty-thirty-five. When that day comes for real, I’ll be thirty-one years old… There are more than twenty-two million values in the data, but the audification compresses time, so that four days pass by every second. The last part starts in January twenty-forty-five. By that date, I would be in my early forties… The last day in this sonification is New Years Eve of the year twenty-fifty-five. By then, I’ll be even older than what my father is today – it’s hard to imagine. I so wonder what the weather will be like then.”

Part of Locust Wrath Series (2013–15), Multimedia performance-installations in collaboration with Angela Liong, Arts Fission, Joyce Beetuan Koh, Soundislands.

  • Nanyang Scroll (2015)
  • LWiOS (2015)
  • Make it New (2015)
  • Forward Feed (2015)
  • Locust Wrath (2013)
  • Lindborg PM, with Liong A and Arts Fission (2014-15). National Gallery, Singapore, as standalone exhibit and as part of The Scroll of Nanyang Ink, performances by Arts Fission Dance Company, 4 – 7 December 2015.
  • Lindborg PM (2014-15). Beyond the Horizon, ADM/NTU, 19 March – 25 April 2015.
  • Lindborg PM (2014-15). Sculptural frontal auditory display. System consisting of 24 channels synchronised fixed-media playback devices, pre-amplification, amplification, audio cables, suspension strings, custom-built loudspeakers, and large portable grid structure. Mixed materials.