Apnea
Jan 10, 2023, 08:56 PM
"Traveling through a submerged world, in "Apnea", all the threads that reach me are at a digital sonic level, because the only possibility of being able to hear is within this spectrum.
"What would be the inverse in the hearing of these ocean giants? For a visitor like me, now, here with them, is to pass through my body like vibrations of a possible translation from communication to exaggeration and description.
At that moment nothing is left but the direction to the other end, a vast fraction, and I limit myself to tuning the body with this error cell.
"In the making of this sound composition, the various plastic possibilities of communication were always present. I made decisions based on error, error as a “crisis” in communication, and digital error as a result of failure, of frequencies at unbearable levels, but also the privileged condition that offers the only possibility of listening to it and getting to know it. "Apnea" is about climate change, the environmental and social problem, marine pollution, man-made sounds and the underwater effects of globalization and heavy industrialization. But it also includes different listening places, occupation movements and human labor, such as the vast destruction of habitat for intensive agriculture and livestock in more temperate and tropical zones and the immeasurable impact it generates in the poles. Everything is connected, like the famous flapping of a butterfly's wings, everything tonifies the strength of these worrying movements in these insular places. So I ask: How can we move in the “error”?"
Blue whale reimagined by Eunice Artur.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
"What would be the inverse in the hearing of these ocean giants? For a visitor like me, now, here with them, is to pass through my body like vibrations of a possible translation from communication to exaggeration and description.
At that moment nothing is left but the direction to the other end, a vast fraction, and I limit myself to tuning the body with this error cell.
"In the making of this sound composition, the various plastic possibilities of communication were always present. I made decisions based on error, error as a “crisis” in communication, and digital error as a result of failure, of frequencies at unbearable levels, but also the privileged condition that offers the only possibility of listening to it and getting to know it. "Apnea" is about climate change, the environmental and social problem, marine pollution, man-made sounds and the underwater effects of globalization and heavy industrialization. But it also includes different listening places, occupation movements and human labor, such as the vast destruction of habitat for intensive agriculture and livestock in more temperate and tropical zones and the immeasurable impact it generates in the poles. Everything is connected, like the famous flapping of a butterfly's wings, everything tonifies the strength of these worrying movements in these insular places. So I ask: How can we move in the “error”?"
Blue whale reimagined by Eunice Artur.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.