Check out the work of the [ESSL @ LSU](https://emdm.cct.lsu.edu/research/esslab/) Much more to come. ## Speculative Biomes This work stems from a collaboration with the New York Botanical Garden and their [Welikia Project](https://www.welikia.org/) which aims to illuminate the rich ecological history that underwrites the development of New York City – documenting how the ecosystems have evolved up to the present. We are now attempting to imagine a similar time lapse through sound. By creating models of flora and fauna, behaviors, and environmental actors, we use the Welikia data to re-create soundscapes that may have existed in the past. In many ways this is a speculative endeavor, but it is grounded in the ecological work of a dedicated group of scientists. The [Biophilic Simulacra Series](Biophilic%20Simulacra.md) uses these models as a stepping off point - beginning with realistic parameters, it is a platform to envision “what if” scenarios, artistically pushing them way beyond the possible and into the realm of the ridiculous. That said, to model the realistic sound of a buffalo stampede today you might start with 50 to 100 buffalo. To model that same sound in 1750, one might imagine the stampede of a few million buffalo – and the resulting tremors would be much closer to the reality. ## Speculative Exo-Musicology https://emdm.cct.lsu.edu/research/esslab/essl-whale-karaoke/