Todd Moe interviews Glenn for North Country Public Radio this morning. Todd Moe caught up with Glenn McClure by phone to find out more about his life-long advocacy for exploring the environment through musical compositions, and “sonifying” scientific data into musical sketches. Listen below:
Kyrie: Caribbean Mass by Glenn McClure original arrangement performed by BYU Hawaii Choir and Shaka Steel in 2001
National Parks are like the air we breathe. I usually don’t think much about the air. It’s invisible, but it’s always there. I take it for granted while I go about my day. However, I get highly focused when suddenly I can’t breathe. Unless the National Parks are part of our vacation plans, they are…
Decentralized Listening: Ice Vibrations: Sound Installation at UC San Diego based on the sonification of seismic data from the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica
This talk explores the connection between Music, Mathematics and Science from its origins in Ancient Greece to Glenn McClure’s recent work with the European Space Agency Operations Center Choir. He demonstrates how numerical data sets can be translated into melodies and harmonies, thereby rediscovering the dynamic relationship between Science and the Arts.