Joshua Borsman

Real-time sonification of the International Space Station. Latitude crossings strike a piano; longitude crossings bow a cello; a third voice follows the live weather at the ISS sub-satellite point. The orbit writes the piece — no fixed score.

An orrery that hums. The Sun's helical voyage through the Milky Way, set to a slow, generative voice — Jupiter and Io, photographed by gravity.

Real-time sonification of James Webb Space Telescope imagery. A scanning gantry walks across nine deep-field photographs, sampling each patch of light and reading it as a three-note phrase. A♭ minor pentatonic; no fixed score.

Generative sonification of chaotic dynamical systems. Sixteen strange attractors rendered in real-time WebGL, mapped to modal resonator synthesis — equations, evolved until they breathe.

Real-time sonification of ocean weather and tide patterns along the Pacific Northwest coast. NOAA buoy readings update every six minutes; the system plays the sea as continuous low-frequency music.

Real-time sonification of low Earth orbit. Satellites traced as faint luminous arcs; when two pass close, they ring call-and-response in D Lydian pentatonic and a thin filament of light connects them for as long as the exchange lasts.

Inverted Pendulum 00001. A carbon-fibre arm held in unstable equilibrium by a real-time control system, tracking visitors through the space via human skeletal estimation. Accompanied by Pacific Northwest birdsong.

A parametric WebGL gear mechanism set in Escher-inspired architecture: spur, helical, herringbone, bevel, worm, and rack gears physically meshing across three perpendicular gravities.

Morticia's Lullaby — a live sound installation that sonified the bloom of a corpse flower (Amorphophallus titanum) at The Spheres in Seattle, September 2025. Sensor data converted to control voltages, played in real time on an analog Eurorack modular synthesizer.

A 2023 exhibition with special guest Jacqueline Goldberg, honouring Seattle neon: the Elephant Super Car Wash, the Seattle City Light depot in Georgetown, and the Lost Lake Cafe & Lounge. Large-format acrylic on canvas, painted at Ground Floor Studio.

A 300-million-point LIDAR scan of the Amazon Spheres, rendered as pointillist fly-throughs. Three mobile stations with 65-inch OLEDs, custom PCs, and stereoscopic depth cameras let viewers navigate the cloud with their bodies. South Lake Union, 2023.

Portfolio of Possibilities — a six-month residency at Mad Art Seattle, 2016. Bell tones became laser-light on water, an innertube sculpture answered the arrival of a city bus, and four artists turned a gallery into an instrument.

Ender 1.0 — an off-grid mobile art studio built on a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter 4×4. Custom roof rack, solar power, Tigerwood deck. Built to go anywhere.

A year-long artist-and-maker residency in South Lake Union, Seattle. Fabrication studio with CNC mill, the seven-axis robot Waldorf, modular synthesis, painting, and digital art — built in partnership with Amazon GREF.