plastic soules first real test

Two years ago during my summer visit to Il Porticello in Calabria, I was struck by the large amount of plastic waste which I found on the beaches.The plastic waste floating on the surface of the seas and oceans and washed up on the beaches is a global problem.

When the curator of Porticello Artist Residencies invited me to stay it made room for an idea: the sonification of the issue. I thought of a series of floating instruments whose main component was floating plastic waste. The instruments should be played by the sea itself. Use oscillating Water Columns, that are devices that generate energy from the rise and fall of water caused by waves and tides. The energy of the waves would continuously pump air through the whistles.

So I returned at eastern to Il Porticello to start working this new project Plastic Souls. In order to make a sound installation out of plastic waste, I had to start beachcombing .
By doing so I realised that the waste that shocked me in the summer was the for tourist cleaned up version. The real situation was enough to dive the biggest optimist in to a depression.
The installation should be placed in the see and the energy of the waves should play the instruments. I
the idea is to make a long floating construction with al sorts of bottles and flutes in a row.
This should be placed in a 90 degrees angle to the coast. so that each wave rolling to the coast will play the instruments one after the other.
I am thinking of a catamaran like construction to prevent it from tilting

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