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On Dec. 4th we welcome you to join us at the UC Davis Theater & Dance Department's Wyatt Pavilion for the performance Climate by the ClimateMusic Project. Climate is an original composition by Erik Ian Walker, in collaboration with The ClimateMusic Project. It tracks historical and projected variations in the climate system over 450 years, from 1800-2250.

The music you hear in this score is not generated by the climate data (sonification), but is affected, and changed, by what the data prescribe. This collision of music (voice of humans) and data (changing nature) was a more compelling dramatic structure than sonification. Since the composition is still driven by the changes in temperature, CO2, solar energy, etc., after a certain tipping point the data takes over and becomes the generating force.