Daily Chorus

Daily Chorus is an installation that visualizes and sonifiesthe daily ebb and flow of activity in our urban environment. Using 9 channel speakers, 4 channel projectors, and an interactive physical installation, Daily Chorus presents a time lapse of 48 hours of the city of Toronto. Environmental data from Toronto captures the dynamically changing light levels, humidity, wind speed, and air particulate measurements as they fluctuate over the course of a day. Tweet data involving the keyword Toronto is also represented in a 48-hour cycle and analyzed for sentiment on a range of positive, neutral, and negative. We are interested in the question of how tweet sentiment patterns shift with the atmospheric conditions of the city. This project explores potential connections between environment and emotion, based on a belief that everything is interconnected.