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Transport 14.24.22

2024

Digital composition

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Humans are obsessed with the sky. This obsession does not cease even after travel in the sky has made a routine nowadays. The more flight travels expand through globe, the harder we come to realise the enormous number of trips to another destination take place in the sky at the same time.

 

Public transportation sets the trend for intentional human travel and migration, with specific origins and destinations. Often regarded as a mundane aspect of daily life in the realm of transportation, the underlying rules of societal functioning are frequently overlooked. These essential rules comprise invisible networks and wireless signals that facilitate the exchange of information through language and audio. Due to its exclusivity, the transmission of information supporting human activities is typically managed by specific operators.  

I capture the flight routes on a latitude where London is based at one certain moment:  25th Oct, 14.22pm

After putting them together, there shows a full range view of flight traces as a circle.

Beyond the context of transport regulations, the visual representation set the stage for encounters with acoustic agencies – that through the language of translation and scoring, to correlate the density of transportation at different terrains with auditory intensity. Scoring of transportation, airspace is a composition on the sky space as a blank-sheet. The research integrates physical, architectural, and acoustic qualities, drawing parallels between the mapping of flight routes and the structure of music-making. The routes can be covered by the region of the piano roll in composition software, so as to correspond the routes with beats and pitch.

Piece of composition

© 2025 by SHAN LYU. 

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