gavcloud - Building The Entopia, 2024, color video with sound, 90 seconds

Entopia is a concept coined by the Greek architect and urban planner Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis. As he states, "What human beings need is not utopia ('no place') but entopia ('in place') a real city which they can build, a place which satisfies the dreamer and is acceptable to the scientist, a place where the projections of the artist and the builder merge." Building The Entopia derives both its rhythmic and melodic information from datasets compiled by the World Bank representing basic research, applied research, and experimental research spending globally from 1996-2001. The pitch information is scaled to an Erv Wilson microtonal tuning. The video features original footage filmed on-location in São Paulo Brazil, Tokyo Japan, and the Kumbh Mela India.

Data source: Multiple sources compiled by World Bank

gavcloud - Tertiary Education Expenditures, 2024, color video with sound, 90 seconds

Tertiary Education Expenditures is a 90-second audio/visual piece that uses data sonification as its principal process. Utilizing UNESCO Institute of Statistics data for number of people of any age group who are enrolled in tertiary education expressed as a percentage of the total population from 1970-2022, TEE creates linear isomrophic mappings between musical pitch and alphabetically ordered countries and their respective data-points, each pitch representing a single year's percentage of enrollment. Rhythmical variety is established when the percentage of enrollment is very low, which causes rhythmic 'rests' in the melody to occur below a certain threshold. The pitch information is scaled to the Euler microtonal tuning.

Data source: UNESCO via World Bank
World Bank variable id: SE.TER.ENRR
Original source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics