Tomato Quintet
As an undergraduate assistant, I provided visuals for Tomato Quintet, a project led by Greg Niemeyer and Chris Chafe. The project focused on the tomato’s ability as a climacteric fruit to emit carbon dioxide during its ripening process. I built these visuals in Processing to accompany the sonification.
Five pods were set up at the Machine Project gallery for ten days in August 2007. The data was simultaneously recorded and sonified real-time. At the end of the ripening process the tomatoes were made into pasta sauce and served to guests while accompanied by a compressed version of the ripening process. Live musicians improvised along by interpreting visualizations produced by the tomato music.
