The (Uncertain) Four Seasons

In The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi depicted the four seasons as he knew them in the early 18th century. But the climate is changing. That got Australian media artist Tim Devine and composer Hugh Crosthwaite thinking: what would Vivaldi's music sound like in, say, 2050?

Based on data from the United Nations climate panel (IPCC) and using artificial intelligence, they translated Vivaldi's 300-year-old masterpiece into the possible state of our planet in 2050 via a computer model: The (Uncertain) Four Seasons.

Vivaldi's storms sound more ominous, bird calls hushed. The often elusive climate crisis becomes audible and palpable. The project has previously been performed on six continents - from Sydney to Amsterdam, from Seoul to Cape Town, and from the Marshall Islands to São Paulo. Everywhere, the algorithm makes Vivaldi's music sound different, depending on the effects of climate change at the performance site.

This version, recomposed especially for Festival Stroom, performed by Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen, shows for the first time in Belgium how our own environment under the influence of man is radically changing if we do not act quickly.
 
The (Uncertain) Four Seasons is a co-production of Festival STROOM & Symfonieorkest Vlaanderen. The project supports the United Nations global campaign Act Now.