Ambient Tremology

The trio of artists Kosmas Dinh, Mae Lubetkin, and Michal Mitro recently returned from the Danube Delta in Romania, where they recorded the vibrations of habitats using a contact accelerometer. As part of the sound performance at Sanatorium of Sound, the sonic part of the work – The Ambient Tremology – will be presented, which recontextualizes the act of listening from its sonic essence to the observation and sonification of so-called vibroscapes.

These haptic audio experiences trace the biophony of the river, its transformations, the quivering mass of amphibious worlds, and audio messages from the invisible more-than-human world. By sounding the vibrations of the delta, we’ll tune in to the ambient memory of this fascinating, incredibly rich environment. The work will be presented at Multichannel sound system of Office of Sound by one of the artists – Michal Mitro.

Amphibious Tremology is part of the Bodies of Water, an Inspiration Forum Lab production. If Lab is organized by the Inspiration Forum in cooperation with the Kersnikova Institute, Display, Sensorium. The IF LAB project is co-financed by the European Union. The artists’ residency was supported by European Union’s Culture Moves Europe and by their Romanian partner – qolony.

Ambient tremology reorients the act of listening from the sonic to the vibrant, by gaining contact with trembling matter of amphibious worlds. Situated within the soaked and brackish Romanian Danube Delta, our contact-accelerometer recordings and haptic experiences trace waterways in transition and more-than-human transmission. Through sculptural fragments and an audio-tactile composition, echoing the vibroscape of the Delta, the work attunes to granular memory and ambient force.