Abstract

Keywords: Underwater sound, sonic consciousness, marine mammals, sound walks, listening, deep listening, environmental art, embodied knowing.

Underwater sound is brought closer to everyday experience by a series of artworks that use deep ocean recordings in site-specific sound walks along the edge of the ocean. Using a practice of embodied experience the sound walks explore notions of listening and connectedness to the uninhabitable ocean. Sound is considered as engaging a sense of relatedness that allows participants to imaginatively dive beneath the visual surface of the ocean, encouraging a sense of presence and connectedness to arise from these encounters. The artist-author recounts her creative process, as well as exploring responses of participants, to elaborate a multi-faceted field of artistic research around sound, environment and sonic consciousness.

• Yolande Harris, Digital Arts and New Media, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)
  Santa Cruz, California, USA

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