Creating an auditory landscape of a post-mass-extinction environment, this art installation combines the natural noises of animal calls with advanced audio technology, utilising both software and hardware from d&b Soundscape, d&b audiotechnik, and IRCAM.
“The apocalypse has already happened, and how we will act now is essential,” reads Björk’s voice, broadcast over a d&b audiotechnik sound system installed by Southby Productions at Paris’ Centre Pompidou.
Though this line sounds wholly cynical, ‘Nature Manifesto’, created in collaboration by Icelandic artist Björk and French techno-activist Aleph, paints a nuanced picture of biodiversity loss, where using advanced audio software, we are encouraged to consider our role in preserving the environment through the calls of extinct animals.
Read the full story in issue 35.2 of MONDO-DR, here:
