Silent Spring • Future Forest Soundscape

2021 Ars Electronica A.I.ECOSYSTEMS Hackathon | Collaborators: Jindřich Les, Fabio Rovai, Mariia Stepaniuk, Michele Uccheddu

Track: Radical visions about human-animals cohabitation

Silent Spring is a transmedia VR experience with composed sound, poetry, and AI-based interaction exploring what the future soundscape of a forest would be like with the current trend of animal extinction and reimagining the alternative. 

The soundscape is divided into four decades each representing progressive deterioration of the environment. In the VR experience, participants are able to navigate through four decades and AI is recognizing and killing the birds as a simulation of human impact on bird extinction over the years, however, participants have the choice to take action and “revive” the birds.