Research in view
Yellowstone’s Geysers Chamber Music · Domenico Vicinanza and Alyssa Schwartz
Seismic data translated into a musical score
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PULSE · Witness · Planetary Inquiry
Listening to
the World.
Before there is music, there is vibration. Before there is choreography, there is motion. Technology can help us attend to what is already moving around—and beyond—us.
A deeper kind of listening
The Earth is
already moving.
Scientific data becomes sound. Sound meets the body. In that encounter, information becomes sensation—and listening becomes a form of attention, empathy, and stewardship.
DataSoundMovementAttention
PULSE · Seismic sonification
Hear the movement
beneath us.
Patterns of planetary movement become sound that musicians, dancers, and audiences can encounter together.
In PULSE, Company E works with Dr. Domenico Vicinanza to bring seismic sonification into artistic practice.
01 · Earth
Data becomes sensation.
Sonification lets us hear change that may be difficult to see. In performance, information becomes rhythm, atmosphere, and embodied response.
02 · More-than-human
Can technology help us listen beyond ourselves?
An emerging AI inquiry turns toward animal communication: exploring whether new tools can reveal pattern and relationship beyond the limits of human language.
PULSE · Plant bioelectricity
The living world has
its own song.
In collaboration with artist and technologist Mileece L’Anson, Company E brings the electrical activity of plants into PULSE. Mileece’s hardware and software translate plant bio-emissions into biologically driven sound—a process she calls aesthetic sonification.
Those signals become composition, atmosphere, and movement: a way of transforming activity within the living world into an experience human audiences can hear, feel, and move through.
Mileece L’Anson · Sonic artist · Immersive ecology designerIn development · Company E
Witness
Four cities. One night.Different worlds.
Kyiv. Geneva. London. Washington, DC. During the same hours of night, each city is heard. Data transformed by Dr. Domenico Vicinanza reveals a startling contrast: the tranquility of three cities set against Russia’s bombardment of Kyiv.
Developed with dancer and choreographer Stefanie Noll, Witness brings those soundscapes into dialogue with the body. It is technology in service of testimony, compassion, and empathy.
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KyivSame hours · Night
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GenevaSame hours · Night
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LondonSame hours · Night
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Washington, DCSame hours · Night
A new work currently in development
The nature of innovation
We are already
living technology.
The body senses, adapts, remembers, and responds. So do forests, rivers, coral systems, and communities. Nature is not the opposite of technology. It is our first teacher.
That understanding brings responsibility. We must ask what a tool consumes, what it changes, who can sustain it, and what kind of world it helps create.
The collaborative intelligence
Listening is
shared practice.
Sonification · Music · Software
Dr. Domenico Vicinanza
Scientist, Composer & ResearcherLeads Company E’s integration of seismic data, music, and software across PULSE, Witness, and new creative inquiry.
Witness · Movement
Stefanie Noll
Dancer & ChoreographerLead artistic partner for Witness, bringing its four-city soundscapes into dialogue with movement, testimony, and lived experience.
Plant Sonification · PULSE
Mileece L’Anson
Sonic Artist & Immersive Ecology DesignerBrings plant bio-emissions into PULSE through aesthetic sonification—opening new ways for Company E to hear, interpret, and move with the living world.Photo: Megan Baker · Courtesy of MileeceContinue through Innovation
The inquiry
keeps moving.
Begin a conversation
How can we
move together?
Company E works with artists, cultural institutions, educators, researchers, technologists, embassies, and communities to build experiences around people and place.
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