Joshua Borsman

The Earth, played as a harp. The ISS crosses the parallels and meridians sixteen times a day; latitude strikes a piano, longitude bows a cello, a third voice follows the weather at the station's ground point. The orbit writes the piece.

An orrery that hums. The Sun's helical voyage through the Milky Way, sounded in B minor — Jupiter and Io, photographed by gravity.

A telescope, sounded. A scanning gantry walks across thirteen James Webb deep-fields, stops every twelve seconds, and reads the patch of light beneath it as a three-note phrase. A♭ minor pentatonic; no fixed score.

Each equation sings the shape of its own chaos. Sixteen strange attractors and three dynamical systems unfold in real-time WebGL; particle positions map to pitch, zero-crossings to plucked-string resonance. Could play for hours without repeating — chaos, by definition, never does.

The score is the sea. NOAA buoys along the Pacific Northwest update every six minutes — wave height, dominant period, wind, temperature — and the system plays them as continuous low-frequency music. The piece never stops; the sea doesn't either.

The cadence is set by the satellites themselves. Thousands traced as luminous arcs in low Earth orbit; when two pass close, they ring call-and-response in D Lydian pentatonic, and a filament of light connects them for the exchange.

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.