Heart of the Mountain is a wavetable synthesizer derived from sacred peaks.

Mountains and mountains live at different scales. How might we bridge this gap? Scalar translation of humpback whalesong catalyzed the ‘Save the Whales’ movement. Let’s try listening to what mountains have to say.

Mountain skylines extracted using computer vision and fit to to a curve.

The resulting function was fed into a program written in Max MSP, where it served as the basis for a synthesizer and a modulation envelope.