Submerged Sonic Technology was made possible by Active/Passive and Bass Coast Festival, who commissioned and supported its first two presentations.
Built entirely in TouchDesigner. Thanks to the team at Derivative, and to the TouchDesigner community. The techniques, tutorials and shared project files from artists who generiously share their work are fundamental to this installation. Special thanks to:
All models licensed CC BY 4.0 and sourced from Sketchfab.
Each piece carries its own recording, activated by that piece's toggle, descending as the installation does.
Humpbacks and Murrelets, recorded in lower Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska. Source: US National Park Service. Recorded as part of Voices of Glacier Bay, a two year project by Richard Nelson and Hank Lentfer.
A composite of two sources. Base recording, humpback whale bubble-feeding and vocalizing, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Alaska, from the US National Park Service, recorded as part of Voices of Glacier Bay by Richard Nelson and Hank Lentfer.
Layered with recordings from the Salish Sea Humpback Vocalization Catalogue by the Orcasound project, including recordings from Saturna Island on Boundary Pass, about 20km south of Galiano. First version of the catalogue created by Emily Vierling, 2022. Orcasound also runs live underwater hydrophone streams.
Orca vocalizations, likely from the PerenniAL Acoustic Observatory in the Antarctic Ocean (PALAOA), 2023. Recorded by Ilse van Opzeeland, Alfred Wegener Institute. Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sounds in the Ocean: Mammals.
Bearded seal call. Institutional recordist: Cornell University, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Sounds in the Ocean: Mammals. More on bearded seals, whose habitat is arctic and sub-arctic.
On how these recordings are made: NOAA passive acoustic technologies.