Sea Battle
Sea Battle is based on a performance of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonata K56 by Giancarlo Mongelli. The harmonies of the Sonata are threaded together with the colors of a computer simulation of the formation of the universe using Illustris software.
The journal New Atlas describes this simulation:
Starting a brief (in cosmological terms) 12 million years after the Big Bang, the computer simulation recreates 13 billion years of cosmic evolution through to the current day in a cube of simulated space measuring 350-million light years on a side. The astronomers counted over 41,000 galaxies in the current-day cube, including what they say is a realistic mix of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way and football-shaped elliptical galaxies. The simulation includes both normal and dark matter using 12 billion 3D "pixels," or resolution elements... "Illustris is like a time machine," says co-author of the study, Shy Genel of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). "We can go forward and backward in time. We can pause the simulation and zoom into a single galaxy or galaxy cluster to see what's really going on.
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I was able to contact Giancarlo Mongelli over Linkedin and express my appreciate for his performance.
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Stellar nurseries, galaxies, nebulas, and other parts of the universe are often featured in my work. Since my perception of color is not always stimulated by eyesight, some of the colors I see are not arranged in familiar ways found in the natural world. We normally expect to see a blue sky with green plants, for example, so combinations of blue and green are comfortable. False color images of space sometimes contain more unusual colors or color combinations.
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