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PROJECT SUMMARY
Nocturne: Sonic Migrations is a live-performance sound and transmission artwork exploring relationships between whales and other marine species, humans and the marine environment. Warren, McIntyre and Kirby employ a range of mediums including FM radio, theremin and live vocal performance, to present a series of sonic ‘migrations’ across several datasets and sites. Inspired by local stories of whales in the Derwent River once keeping Hobart’s residents awake at night, the work invites listeners into a dreamlike soundscape that blends bioacoustic data from the Australian Antarctic Division’s Southern Ocean voyages, technological and environmental sound and recorded vocal interviews with nipaluna/Hobart residents. Moving beyond human-centred listening spaces Nocturne: Sonic Migrations re-imagines the local marine environment as both a regenerative and haunted space and a significant site for interspecies communications.
Nocturne: Sonic Migrations is supported by Constance ARI, Arts Tasmania and Hobart City Council’s Creative Hobart. The artists wish to thank Brian Miller and the Australian Antarctic Division for the use of their bioacoustic data in this work. Thanks also to interviewees Rona Hollingsworth, David Patman, Tricky Walsh, Mary Scott, Annaliese Rees and Lucienne Rickard.
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EXHIBITION TITLE
NOCTURNE: SONIC MIGRATIONSARTISTS
MATT WARREN, SALLY ANN MACINTYRE, DANI KIRBYDATES
18 FEBRUARY 2022VENUE
WATERSIDE PAVILION, MAWSON’S PLACE
