Suon Laulu (Song of the Swamp)

10 minutes, 07 seconds Processing code by Brian Givens Created to accompany choral work composed by Hannah Selin for the Tuira Chamber Choir Performed in October 2023 as part of New Music October Festival in Oulu, Finland Soil data obscures and reveals information about the plants growing in it. This work uses a hyperspectral image made at Luonnonvarakeskus (Natural Resources Center Finland) as the "seed" image to scatter pixels of a stereo microscope image of a stem of Sphagnum moss. The images are then reversed so we see an image of the moss reconstructed.