PEAK DISCHARGE

Peak Discharge is a revelatory bioacoustic soundscape - a sound and video piece that utilizes water quality data to examine human impact on the land. The translation of data is an expression of visible and invisible forces acting upon the landscape.

The underwater sounds of the Lower Schuylkill River are manipulated with recontextualized water quality data from the US Geological Survey. Information representing individual ambient water quality markers is directly represented through a system of sound wave translations. The resulting sound piece shares with the listener an audio illustration of the impact of human development on our living systems.