Sam's Art.
Series: What Grows Summer 2024 - Present
A meditation on the concept of growth.
Cells grow.
Companies grow.
Animals, trees, fish, birds, they all grow.
We grow.
Each piece explores how growth impacts us, how it feels to grow, and what it means to be a growing, changing being.
Concerto in Petri Dish
Medium: Cellular Automata, Orchestral Synthesizer, p5.js, p5.sound, Audacity
Created: April 2025 - June 2025
This piece that uses cellular automata and generative audio to form a symphony of growing bacteria, as they form unique patterns and undulate with the sounds of violins, cellos, and an oboe.
Our World, Planes Overhead
Medium: Shepard Tones, Bird Calls, p5.js, p5.sound, Audacity
Created: August 2024 - May 2025
This piece reinterprets growth as overgrowth, combining the visual of infinite planes with dissonant engine noises, as well as an auditory forest landscape. It examines the clashing of artificial growth and natural growth, specifically as it relates to noise pollution in our environment.