An Immersive Art Setup Records the Sounds of the Sea
Jana Winderen hydrophone recording at the Silverbank, Dominican Republic. Photo: TBA21– Academy, José Alejandro Alvarez.
Norwegian artist Jana Winderens immersive, site-specific installation, The Art of Listening: Under Water, will exist by Columbias School of the Arts at the Lenfest Center for the Arts, February 3-13, 2022, 2-8 pm. Visitors will experience a structure of underwater recordings made by the artist over several years in different locations– the Barents Sea around the North Pole, Iceland, Greenland, Thailand, the Caribbean, and off the coast of Miami– alongside new recordings made in and around New York City waters, simply days prior to the opening of the installation. Visitors might recline, sit, or stand while they listen.
Winderen has been using hydrophones to make underwater recordings considering that 2005. “When I make recordings in the environment, I tape the entire environment with the animals in it,” she said. “You will hear shellfishes, schools of fish, and mammals like dolphins, humans, whales, and seals.”
The composition highlights the fragility of our ecosystems, and the consistent intrusions of human noises undersea today. Human activities in the worlds waters are common and disruptive. Cargo and cruise liner, pings from seismic airguns prospecting for oil, stack drivings, military finder, jet skis, tankers, and fishing vessels create undersea noise contamination that puts tension on water life– interfering with animals capability to hear one another, communicate, feed, mate, and browse.
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Winderen has actually been utilizing hydrophones to make undersea recordings considering that 2005. “When I make recordings in the environment, I tape the entire environment with the animals in it,” she stated. Freight and cruise ships, pings from seismic airguns prospecting for oil, pile drivings, military sonar, jet skis, tankers, and fishing vessels generate underwater sound contamination that puts stress on marine life– interrupting animals ability to hear one another, communicate, feed, mate, and browse.
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Eve Glasberg|February 7, 2022