the sound of the earth

source: sonorouspresenceorg

THE SOUND OF THE EARTH｜地球的声音 是荷兰新媒体艺术家Lotte Geeven 2013年的装置作品。这件作品其实是否被定义为声音艺术作品不重要，它可以是大地艺术，可以是装置，也可以是新媒体作品。

作品值得借鉴的地方是艺术家对空间的关注。声音艺术一直在强调空间，也甚至用与空间的关系来作自我的艺术身份定义（Alan Litcht）, 但事实上，好的关于空间的声音艺术作品并不多。目前的状况，东西方都难逃脱的，是艺术家对空间与声音关系的挖掘还远远不够。对空间的理解如果没有地理，物理，环境，建筑等方面知识的支持，总会显得过于概念化，而花里胡哨。

作品来源于一个具有诗意的问题，“地球听起来是什么声音？”

为作这件作品，Lotte找到世界最深的（5英里）地井，去记录地球的声音。通过专门为此项目制作的软件将地震波转换为声波，然后再转换成人耳听到的低频声。图片中看到的地震仪绘制的录音声波。
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source: geeven

For this project I travelled to the deepest open hole in the world to find out about it’s mysteries and to record the sound of the earth. Based on this travel I made a series of artworks. During the project I was an artist warmly welcomed on the territory of science by the GFZ with a question of an existential and poetic nature: ‘What does the earth sound like?’.

In order to record sound in the bore fluid that fills the borehole a normal microphone would not work so first sonic transducer data and later geophone recordings where translated into audio by software designed by the team for this specific purpose.

Lotte Geeven (1980) is a multi-media artist from Amsterdam creating tailor-made portraits of sovereign places. These simple portraits with a graphical character aim to envelope the magic of autonomy and explore complex matter & power beyond our control related to a specific place. For example The sound of the earth –a sound recording from the deepest open hole in the planet- is a portrait of the abstract deep earth. Or the work Sovereign -an upside down Jaguar spinning on it’s back in slow motion in an empty parking lot- is an exploration of the ambiguous character of this sovereign location. Her work has been amongst other shown in China, Japan, Italy, New York, The UK, Indonesia, Canada, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2010 Geeven was awarded with the prestigious Illy Prize for most innovative artist.
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source: theverge

For billions of years, the Earth has silently traveled through space, spinning around the sun without making a sound. Even here on the planet, there’s been little to hear. But now with the right recording equipment and processing, we can get a sense of what it sounds like for the planet to spin and spin while looping around the sun. Artist Lotte Geeven has ventured into what she says is the deepest open hole in the world — a location on the border of the Czech Republic that drops down over 5.5 miles, according to Designboom — and recorded what she calls “The Sound of the Earth.”

Geeven, who was accompanied by a production team for recording, doesn’t say exactly what we’re listening to, but presumably it’s seismic waves that have been adjusted so that humans can hear them. Her recording is also accompanied by a series of works that includes sculpted damping foam, low frequency speakers, and a seismograph printing the recording.