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The sounds of ghostly creaking and the scuttling of claws against the hulls of briny shipwrecks. Made from hydrophonic recordings.
Creator: Kim Cascone
Sound Clip: Soundscape of a Marina by Kim Cascone.
Look for the upcoming hydrophonic sound art exhibition Hydrophonia Genoa 2009 curated by this artist.
this recording is so far out!
it seems like you can hear the clacking sort of react to/respond to the pulse of the sea, without hearing the sea. it makes for a very complex rhythmic structure…
without an explanation, I’d have no idea what this was.
Bravo !
[...] This under water recording of “ghostly creaking and the scuttling of claws against the hulls of briny shipwreck.” The claw scuttling reminds me a the crackling of hot bacon grease. Some of the strangest sounds I have heard in sometime. [...]
absolutely lovely…
http://www.oliviernijs.nl/projecten/waterland.html
Check these out. especially Waterland 3. Made for a gps walk in The Netherlands. a mix of ordinary mic with Hydrophone.
I have to tell you what a flood of nostalgia these sounds unleash. As a child I spent many summer nights on my father’s small sailboat which was moored in SD Bay. He lived onboard after my parent’s divorce and it was the only place I saw him for several years. I would lie in the v-bearth at the bow of that boat for hours listening to these very sounds as they would resonate through the boat, naturally amplified by the wooden hull. The clicking and creaking were as mesmerizing to me then as they are now. So unique. Beautiful. Thank you.
RM
Bravo Kim,
it will be wonderfull to listen you in Genoa at HYDROPHONIA on October 31st.
Have you listened this of Lorenzo Brutti?
http://www.facebook.com/pages/lorenzo-brutti-aka-dll/49311193681
piazza roma 1758 – brano realizzato con registrazioni idrofoniche dalla vasca inferiore della Fontana dei Cavalli di Piazza Roma, Ancona.
I wish you could record the sounds of the marina and my sailboat from inside my boat. It is trippy. Sometimes you can hear the diver scrubbing the hull and then there’s the moan of the boat creaking against the fenders, the list of sounds goes on and on.
An impassioned person of innovative art as me attends the Hydrophonia Genoa 2009 taken care of by you.
This is incredible! I would love to hear the details of the hydrophone used to record it. Was it custom made?
great stuff amico!
Almost inaudible chirps echo along the sea are shy voices making their presence known. Briney wood chafes and scours against itself. Ropes squeal under the strain like pigs being taken after. The wind gusts and puffs in a flurry carrying the salty, clammy air across the bleached landscape. Motors are beasts in the nigh drawing nearer and nearer, growling. It’s as if they seek souls to devour. Soft rain pats the land and sea reassuringly and embraces it with its cool company. Then, stabs the earth with icy awkward splashes. Tapping and shuffles of tiny creatures like a miniature, hushed parade, almost voiceless against the flood of water. Layers and layers of ghostly fog crowds the skies and hushs with a soft tone of it’s mourning . Squeaking footsteps are shrill in the distance. They are making their way closer on a beaten path of gray, splintery wood. The sea pulses as if its heart was racing with uneasiness. As the wind dies down from its howling the sky dims itself and all dissapears into blackness. All is silent now except the wind which is now whistling a tune of terror.
My students listened to the beginning of this recording in class today. I asked them to guess what it was. Here are some of their guesses:
Construction workers wearing tap dancing shoes, a car engine being started in the rain forest, a rickety wagon being drug across an old bridge, a rollercoaster, the Pirates of the Caribbean, frying grease, blacksmith’s workshop and a creaky old house in a storm.