Simulated Environments and Environmental Consciousness: Extending Ecoacoustic Monitoring into Sound Art

Abstract This article explores how greater interplay between science, technology, and art can facilitate deeper connectedness with nature and large, distributed natural processes, such as global warming and avian migration. The author, an ecoacoustic data scientist and musician, lays a foundation by discussing how the sublime aesthetic characterizes our appreciation of nature, the myriad benefits of nature immersion, and the ability of art---particularly sound art---to facilitate a connection with natural hyperobjects. The author then applies these concepts in several sound art pieces derived from bird detections within the Sound of Norway, a national-scale passive acoustic monitoring network.