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st​é​phane marin - phonosynth

from possible moistures by various artists

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"Plunging one's ear into the water of rivers, streams and ponds is to discover a totally unsuspected world of sound. Under the water lilies and the milfoils lies a whole orchestra of unknown sounds that only the hydrophones of scientists and artists can reveal. Stéphane Marin's aquatic sounds perk up our ears and tickles our eardrums. As a biologist, the first reaction when listening to these submarines acoustics is one of knowledge: where do they come from, who is singing like that, is it a chorus of insects? But which ones and how do they do it? Why this rhythmical dynamic and these temporal and frequency modulations? For once, sound precedes over sight, which is of no help so much it is difficult to guess what is going on in the murky waters. Could it be the swirling of muddy bottoms? Could it be plants whose gas exchanges produce small sparkling and whistling bubbles? This is more likely, but there is not enough experience to confirm it. With aquatic sounds, we must be wary of everything, as we know so little. The first underwater recordings only date from the second half of the 20th century and since then natural history publications on aquatic acoustics can almost be counted on the fingers of one hand. We know so little that listening to continental waters is like listening to forests without knowing who is singing: is it a blackbird, a robin, a chickadee, a deer or a creaking trunk? This is the kind of experience that Stéphane Marin proposes: to enter a world devoid of knowledge and to seek out sounds in order to know or not. To try to understand where the sound comes from, who the sound is, why the sound. But also, to let go, to listen for the sake of listening and to welcome the unknown without trying to lift the anonymity, to appreciate the sound flows, and let them seduce and please us without trying to explain. To let ourselves be carried away by the rhythms, the jerks, the pulsations, the crackles, low or high, light or sustained, isolated or combined. For a while, accept not knowing, not explaining, the poem. To listen to these sounds as naturalist works where sensoriality prevails over meaning, dreaminess over realism." — text by Jérôme Sueur • Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, France

recorded in the Garonne river near Toulouse (France) in September 2019 & 2020

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from possible moistures, released November 12, 2021

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