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Dry Days: when loops go out of sync in Harbingers

  Dry Days , composed by Aron Faria , and being performed live by Paul Godwin, Miguel Noya, Dustin Koupal and Aron Faria on April 23rd, 2022, as part of the event, Earth Dayta , is inspired by data that shows the average yearly temperature slowly increasing through the year 2099.  The foundation of the piece uses two identical musical loops playing simultaneously, with one slowly increasing in tempo to represent the increasing temperature. The simultaneous video sequences similarly shift in tempo and duration, allowing new imagery to appear. The piece shows how change is not always noticeable right away, but over time one can see the effects and feel the impact of small changes on larger systems. Dry Days also makes visual use of popular climate change graphics that have been shared with the public over the last several year, known as the warming stripes . Warming stripes (sometimes referred to as climate stripes or climate timelines) are data visualizatio