047 Seismoglyph (Mitosis version) / 2021  

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"Seismoglyph" is a collaborative work with artist and musician Stuart Hyatt, who instigated the project and provided the sound. Stuart worked with seismologists in Alaska in preparation for an album launch and exhibition at the Anchorage Museum. Field recordings from seismic monitoring stations around Alaska were transposed into an audible range, revealing the sound of seismic activity. Stuart edited and processed those sounds and gave them to artist Blake Marques Carrington to create a visualization.

The visuals layer a scientific spectrographic visualization with shifting geometric forms, inspired by tectonic plates, experimental architect Lebbeus Woods’ drawings for “Einstein’s Tomb”, and an ambiguous invented glyph language. If Earth was trying to speak to us, its seismic activity could be like encrypted speech, waiting for us to decode it.




(Anchorage version) in Stuart Hyatt exhibition at Anchorage Museum, Alaska


One of the 280 seismic monitoring stations around Alaska and Western Canada


Waveforms and spectrographs of seismic activity sensed by the stations