Everyday struggle

"My top two choices were odontoceter recordings, because they both felt familiar in a sense of everyday life. In both recordings you can hear many conversations. And when listening to the chosen recording a couple of times, a lot of conversation topics from daily life got to my mind. I had to include my thoughts and small talk that lately surrounded me. So my inspiration followed the story of marine life, told through clicking and whistling. The crashing of sea ice seemed to be a situation that pushed all daily talks, dreaming and chilly feelings aside and united all into survival comunity, that is deciding to leave the place at once.

"For the composition I used only the chosen file and my voice. I manipulated some special sounds with delays, pitch corrections and reverb to make some kind of rhythm. All in all, the whole story tells the original recording itself. I just added some human drama and translated it to one of many versions of how we interpret the world around us."

Odontocete sounds reimagined by Mojca.

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. 

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