SEDIMENTS
2024, Sound Art, Installation
A multi-channel sound installation by Peter Simon, 2024
Composition, hardware design, concept: Peter Simon
Creative coding: Tobias Grewenig
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Bottom sediments in the ocean are formed by various processes and materials that are deposited on the sea floor over time. These sediments play an important role in the global ecosystem and provide a habitat for many organisms.
The type and composition of sediments varies depending on the region, depth and prevailing environmental conditions.
Biogenic sediments play an essential role in the Earth’s carbon cycle, as they store carbon from the atmosphere in the seabed. Over time, these sediments can solidify and form rock layers that provide us with important information about the Earth’s history.
If the sounds produced by marine organisms were stored in sediments in some way, they could be heard as a kind of “echo of the past”.
The sound installation “Sedimente” plays with this idea.
It’s like experiencing the inaccessible, ancient and unfathomable nature of the deep sea in acoustic form, creating an immersive and almost otherworldly soundscape.
It reflects the mysterious and often frightening atmosphere of the deep sea, a place where the unknown is ever present.
In the analogy of “compressing” sounds through “pressure”, as if they were being compressed into a sediment, the different layers of sound will transform into something new, much like geological processes transform sediment into rock.
The condensed soundscape is a kind of acoustic rock that carries the power and weight of the oceans. The sounds are no longer light and free-flowing, but heavy, dense and complex, an echo of something primal and immobile that lies hidden deep within the earth.
