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Recordist's notes
Lekwungen lands and waters, the Salish Sea. Listening for hidden sounds Intimate sounds Old sounds Inside my body Inside layers of rock Ancestors Under the water Water licking rock as the tide ebbs, low tide, no wind Barnacle casings. Under the surface, though, life. Rhythm of scurrying, eating, crunching. The way language forms from these sounds Guttural gurgling wet unfolding. Resonating from deeper in the chest. From below the feet From being encased in these rocks. Changing how I think of my speech. Listening from the perspective of a barnacle. Response to "Reciprocal Listening" score for NAISA WorldListeningDay2020 Recorded with hydrophone pair. Tina Pearson © 2020
About the place
Oak Bay is a town of about 18,015 people in British Columbia, Canada.
Equipment mentioned: Hydrophones. Underwater microphones used for whales, fish, ice and the hidden sounds of rivers and ponds.
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Sources & credits
- “Cattle Point Tidal Pool Lekwungen Territory, Victoria, BC V8R, Canada - ReciprocalListening-BarnaclePool” by pearstina – Public Domain Mark · radio aporee ::: maps via Internet Archive
- Reverse geocoding: GeoNames – CC BY 4.0