HAKURYU - Turning the European Space Agency's EarthCARE satellite into a dragon singing a song of peace to the earth.
HAKURYU is an immersive installation, interactive and VR experience featuring a dragon singing a song to earth. It transforms clouds into choirs made from the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable voices, joined by sonic environmental textures. The experience creates a space for reflection around ecological care, at a moment of accelerating planetary crisis, by reframing climate science as embodied and relational, and most of all human in response. Hakuryu does this by foregrounding diverse lived perspectives, particularly those forgotten in climate discourse, inviting audiences to slow down, listen deeply, and reconsider their relationship to planetary systems and the shared stories that unite us.
Features:
Upcoming:
2026 / ESRIN Open Day Rome
2026 / ECSAT Open Day UK
Past:
2026 / International Conference on Auditory Display - Barcelona
2026 / EarthCARE Oxford Workshop
2026 / Natural History Museum Oxford
2025 / Living Planet Symposium Vienna
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Credits:
Artist: Jamie Perera
Visual programming: Tekja (Jacopo Hirschstein)
Sonification programming: N3xtcoder (Jonathan Moore) & Adrian Lewis
ESA development & production: Bjoern Frommknecht, Peter Bickerton, Shannon Mason & the EarthCARE & JAXA teams
Additional audio development: Danny Bright
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