Seaphony Life on Planet Ocean

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Experience the deep Ocean and its unique soundscapes through spatial sounds, light and imagination. Virtual reality and three dimensional audio tableaus let you immerse yourself in a world that can seem otherworldly unreal, always sensual and often fragile.

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The Symphony of Life on Planet Ocean

Without the Ocean, there would be no life on planet Earth, which should actually be called planet Ocean. For the ocean covers more than two thirds of the earth. It is the origin of all life, a living, sentient cosmos.
The audiovisual installation SEAPHONY with a spatial multichannel composition by british sound artist Chris Watson in collaboration with spatial sound specialist Tony Myatt takes you on a 3D-audiovisual journey under the surface of the seas and oceans to celebrate and experience the most sound rich environments on the planet; crustaceans on a coral reef, the haunting siren songs of seals and the voices of the largest and loudest animals which have ever lived, the great whales.

The experience presents the remarkable underwater soundscape of the oceans as a spatial, audiovisual composition. SEAPHONY interweaves original recordings of whales, dolphins, penguins, seals, fish, icebergs and glaciers into a planet wide deep ocean experience by connecting all these animals and habitats with the sounds and rhythms of the ocean currents. The piece will also reflect upon the increasing noise pollution human actions have introduced into these ancient environments, the effects on marine life and what we are doing to restore the natural balance.

The unique collaboration between sound artists Chris Watson and Tony Myatt with light artist Theresa Baumgartner, lets you experience this spatial 22-channel 360-sound art alongside spacial transformations in light and colour.

Seaphony - artists and installations

The immersive audiovisual installation is composed by Chris Watson, a founding member of the avantgarde band Cabaret Voltaire, a composer and one of the world's most distinguished specialists in natural sound recordings. SEAPHONY is based on his underwater recordings from all over the world's oceans. Developed in collaboration with spatial sound specialist Tony Myatt featuring a sculptural light installation by Berlin artist Theresa Baumgartner.

Artists of SEAPHONY Installation
Field Recording & Composition: Chris Watson
Additional Sound Recording & Spatial Sound: Tony Myatt
Light sculptures & staging: Theresa Baumgartner

SEAPHONY is accompanied by two other immersive installations: The virtual reality experience THE BONE by Michelle-Marie Letelier takes you into a mythical intermediate world between the deep sea and the universe, reality, dream and utopia, into the stream of consciousness of a sea creature. The audio tableaus OCEAN.WORLD.MODULES by wittmann/zeitblom throw light on the taming of the oceans by man. Background information on the threats to the oceans and how you can help protect the sea is shown by contributions by Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz (BUND).