Synth + mar[2] is an immersive sound installation by Julián Aníbal Henao García that translates real-time oceanic data — temperature, salinity, and pressure — transmitted by buoys across the seven seas into audible tones, rhythms, and sonic intensities. The "orchestra" performing this piece is not composed of musicians, but of wooden logs recovered from a forest reserve and fitted with recycled electric speakers: an encounter between terrestrial and marine systems that reveals their deep interconnection and interdependence.

In Henao's work, technology is placed at the service of biology, acting as a channel for its pulses, calls, and laments. The rhythmic successions and tonal modulations respond to physical signals from the ocean in a melody that resists easy categorization — neither clearly a prelude, an overture, nor a requiem. Synth + mar[2] is a gesture of interpretation and empathy, an invitation to resonate beyond the acoustic dimension with forms of life vastly different from our own, while bearing witness to the transformation already visible in the timber — cut and treated for human convenience — and calling for that fate not to extend to the waters whose songs it channels.