The speakers on the bridge speakers help the animals make their voices audible out of water. On the other hand the headphones help the humans to dive into the underwater world sounds. Hear real and imaginary animal sounds, as well as real and imaginary underwater sounds.

It is a double examination of deep realms when Angélica Castelló takes the audience on a journey to her imaginary underwater world “sonic blue.” The sea has always held a great fascination for the composer and musician. And to her it symbolises the subconscious. The acoustic basis of “sonic blue” consists of field recordings, recordings of natural and environmental noises that Castelló gathered together with the biologist Heike Vester in the Norwegian Lofoten in summer, where Vester heads Ocean Sounds, an organisation founded by her which is dedicated to researching marine mammals and protecting the marine environment. Exploring the omnipresence of music and art in everyday life also implies examining the relationship between culture and nature. (Susanna Niedermayr)

“There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.” (Herman Melville)

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”(Jacques Yves Cousteau)

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach – waiting for a gift from the sea.” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh)

„My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me.“ (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

commissioned by musikprotokoll in the frame of ECAS – Networking Tomorrow‘s Art for An Unknown Future, working period 3 „Ubiquitous Art and Music. Art, Sound and the Everyday.“

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