I met with Zdenka and did some work with her on the Antarctic model that she’s working up. We plugged placeholders for a step sequencer into one of the feeds, and co-opted my sinewave harmoniser to provide a softly undulating timbre-shifting drone for the ocean floor readings. VST synths were then mapped to polynya levels and salt flux.

It strikes me that a lot of this structuring will be very similar to what is required when Lukrecia delivers the first set of Arctic data. But it has brought forward something that has been troubling me for a while; whether to make use of sinewave generators and work in a broadly chromatic manner, or whether to fix the output in a clear diatonic domain, with subsequent anomalies in the data being presented as material breaking out from being ‘in key’. The latter will doubtless be more musical but it contains the conceit that we are starting from a position that is, essentially, harmonious, and I remain doubtful as to whether that is an accurate representation of where we are.