Exploring Anthropogenic Underwater Noise
AN OCEAN ASSEMBLY
The Interspecies discourse
Coming from a film/sound background, the issue of editing or assembling is present in Opus Whales’ rational dimension.
For us, virtuous sonospheres are a sequence of acoustic frames spinning around a matter of concern, the Ocean (in Bruno Latour terms), meaning an issue of common interest for the sake of interspecies co-existence. Editing however, is a musical practice, even without music. It follows a musical rhythm, an arrangement of gestures that write stories and get imprinted in viewers by means of tempo.
We edit with the pursuit of composing a body of work which is a body politik. With our narratives thus we “represent” and amplify an interspecies, human/non-human, choir.
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Could #policymakers approach a territory so vast to “rule” as the ocean, without having #sovereignty mechanisms as standpoints which narrow #global visions and goals?​
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Could skilful entrepreneurs evolve from seeing the Ocean as a #stockmarket in which futuristic technology and the -recently coined, already established and rapidly growing- term: Blue Economy stands on a blurry line moving towards #bluewashing?
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Could Citizenship Science become a participatory practice with real incidence in the daily life of human dwellings instead of a mechanism to grant tourist operators an alibi?
#WeAreTheOcean
We Who?
On Sobriety
Beyond Fiction
OOSC - UNOC3
Takeaways
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Pic on board CNR - Falkor essel
Sharing is Caring
As Peter Thompson
(UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean) suggested, data needs to be shared, not only among peers but on an interdisciplinary basis.
Art is Central
Not only as Ocean Literacy tool also but as a real trigger in behavioural changes, art was a prominent guest during the Ocean conference/congress; just like this outstanding gathering organized by IFREMER (L'Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer) did at the Opera in Nice.
Pic MBARI'S ROV
Deep and Beyond
The real risk of deep sea mining and not implementing properly the BBNJ agreement, is that as humanity we might be loosing species and key clues, for our civilization, that we will not even get to meet.
Endorsement
Once upon a time, we were delighted by the endorsement got from the UN Ocean Decade Science for Sustainable Development for our Action:
Lull-O-Thèque
Mapping the sounds of Humpback Whales, mangroves and traditional communities which could potentially arrange unique interspecies choirs safeguarding traits of Cultural Heritage.
Image taken from the breakout session 4-Quieter Oceans.
Ocean Decade Conference.
find us at minute: 2:07:00
A conversation with two Marine Mammals' experts:
During the event, we have listened to an opera especially designed for the occasion by composer Angelo Farro, who in his piece, recreates the sensation of noise transforming what is scientifically considered dangerous for underwater species, in a way that highlights it.
Guests:
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