RadianceScape

Since 2011, the 311 Earthquake in Fukushima once again woke up the world attention on the nightmare of the nuclear disaster. Until now, there is no workable solution for Japan to x the leaking problem. The highly radiating wastewater is released to the Paci c Ocean, keeps contaminating the marine life, and results in damaging the whole food chain. Meanwhile, the Japan government keeps hiding the news and real situation of the radiation problem. RadianceScape is a data-visualizing sonic composition, which aims at visualising the radioactivity and raising out the awareness of the issue to the public. It based on the live radiation data from the Safecast.org, a global sensor network for collecting and sharing radiation measurements, to generate an audio-visual cityscape. It appears in a point-cloud mapping outlook in which the density of the radiation level is representing the visibility of the cityscape. The sequence of the images is grabbed from the Google Streetview API’s hidden depth map data. The sonic composition is based on the locative data to generate di erent tonal of drone ambience and noise. The graphical score consists of 2 separated parts. First part is illustrating the route of Hong Kong, where visualising the radiation level from Mongkok to Tsim Sha Tsui area. The second part is illustrating the route of Fukushima, where visualizing the radiation level from the Fukushima Prefecture to the nuclear power plant.

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