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Deep Listening Deep Sea(ing) comes as our response to a challenge to increase ocean literacy. We want to draw attention to the deep ocean, as it is wider, less known and of extreme importance for life on earth.
Advances in ocean submersibles, imaging and sampling technologies are contributing to incredible biological and geological discoveries, but they have yet to make it into textbooks. The deep ocean is also threatened by the same damages happening to coastal waters (overfishing, oil spills, plastic accumulation, chemical and noise pollution) to which we can add those resulting from the race for the resources that the ocean floor contains.
The aim of DLDS is to create artistic experiences that contribute to raise awareness of the importance of the deep ocean. The project will invite teenagers to create “audiovisual postcards” and “soundtracks” to images / films of the deep ocean provided by the University of Bergen and the Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf. “Imagining” the soundscapes of a barely known universe is a fascinating challenge and the results will be publicly presented in final presentations that will also include scientific talks.
The Pianoscope is the “sound factory” that we will use to create original sound resources in artistic residencies and workshops at the International Academy for Music Arts and Sciences in Marvão, involving CMT artists, teenagers and the general public, which will allow the creation of a “sound vocabulary” that will be made available in an open “library”. This sound material will later be used at the Fábrica Centro Ciência Viva Aveiro in workshops aimed at teenagers with the purpose of creating “sound postcards” and/or sound videos of the deep ocean.
This project joins a number of previous CMT projects that address the need to “tune” people with the fragile world we live in: Deep Sea Mission (2015); NOAH (2017); Murmuratorium (2019) or Thousand Birds (2020, part of Lisbon European Green Capital 2020).