Longing
Jan 14, 2023, 10:55 AM
"The loud calls of the leopard seal taken as they are. In their depth, in their vibration, with the trills, in their height, then added my voice. Now I, too, calling under water... My voice recorded, changed and approximated to the vocalization of the leopard seal. I listen carefully to them: Longing heard, sadness heard and I answer with a melody on my violin... a melody for all the gigantic leopard seals, these solitary animals. A short song for the loners of Antarctica...
"Mirijam Streibl, PhD is a researcher and artist. Since she was a child, she has dreamed of visiting Antarctica, swimming with marine mammals. Listening to the underwater audio recordings and work on the acoustic behavior of the leopard seal moved her. "You get very close through listening.""
Leopard seal reimagined by Mirijam Streibl.
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.
"Mirijam Streibl, PhD is a researcher and artist. Since she was a child, she has dreamed of visiting Antarctica, swimming with marine mammals. Listening to the underwater audio recordings and work on the acoustic behavior of the leopard seal moved her. "You get very close through listening.""
Leopard seal reimagined by Mirijam Streibl.
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.