This art installation creates sounds based on real-time data from a polluted river

Brian House’s new installation takes real-time data from water quality sensors and turns it into sound. The project, titled Animus, is composed of four sheets of metal — iron-oxidized steel, aluminum, copper, and lead — each attached to a microphone and audio transducer, which converts energy into sound. The quality of the sound is manipulated by amplifiers, which receive data from sensors placed in Colorado’s Animus River. As the river changes, so does the sound produced