During the last week of August, Chris Chafe (Music), Nikolaos Hanselmann (Visuals), and Greg Neimeyer (Cook) let 5 cases of different varieties of tomatoes (from Chafe’s garden) ripen to perfection at Machine Project.
They recorded the ripening process by tracking the changes in CO2 that the ripening produces. They stored the CO2 changes during the week as a time series, compress it along the time axis, and translated the changes to a musical scale. The resulting music, a bit like a sonic time-lapse, is a sonification of 7 days of ripening in the course of 49 minutes.
On Friday August 31st, they played those 49 minutes of music while serving pasta with tomato sauce made on-site from the perfectly ripened tomatoes. Seeds to grow your own tomatoes next year were offered as well.
