Three days Festival:
Concerts, installations and talks about natural and human-caused sound in the ocean and its impact on life in the sea.
Hospitalkirche Stuttgart
17.-19.11.2022
“My father, when I was a kid, created a movie, very well known, which has put the ocean in everybody’s home, called ‘the silent world’ {1955}. While it was pretty silent then, the big difference between the past and today is that we’ve created a lot of noise. I wish we were making music, but we’re not!” – J.-M. Cousteau, explorer, founder and president of Ocean futures Society in the film “Sonic Sea”.
The silence of the sea has never existed. The underwater world is full of fantastic sounds. Humankind is in the process of destroying this soundscape. Ships, wind turbines, naval sonar, seismic air cannons. Sea creatures suffer or die.
Just as we have difficulty conversing along a busy road, marine life's perception of sound signals that are essential for survival is disturbed. Noise thus causes the animals to lose habitat.
Since sound travels about 4.5 times faster underwater than in the air, many marine creatures use it for communication, foraging and orientation: echolocation of dolphins, songs of humpback whales, spawning sounds of haddock, clicks and codas of sperm whales, vocalisations of seals. Man-made noise drowns out and disrupts these sophisticated communication techniques and ultimately threatens the survival of many underwater animals.
THE SONIC OCEAN PROJECT
Musicians and artists have always found in nature a source of inspiration for their creative process. Cellist and concert designer Céline Papion has also followed this path. After a research grant from the Music Fund and an intensive exchange with scientists, she decided to bring contemporary music and art into dialogue with science and environmental activism and initiated the “Sonic Ocean Project”.
The focus lies on the sonic beauty of the underwater world and its destruction by noise pollution. The background is always scientific data or the concrete experiences of the activists on site. Céline and her team develop and stage performative and musical formats that oscillate between realism and abstraction.: immersive concerts with experimental music and light, performances, educational programmes for children and young people, discussions with the audience.
INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAM
For Sonic Ocean, an international team of musicians, composers, sound and light artists, field recordists, experts and ecologists come together to contribute their perspectives. Their aim is to use sensory experience to arouse curiosity and imagination and, in the best case, to impart knowledge and empathy.
Premiere performance of "Trois duettos sous les mers" for Violoncello, Piano, Balloons and Electronics
Photos by Nataliya Gurevich
Vom 17. bis 19. November 2022 versenkt die Cellistin und Konzertdesignerin Céline Papion die Hospitalkirche Stuttgart im Meer. Sonic Ocean schafft ein informatives und poetisches Programm, das die klangliche Schönheit der Unterwasserwelt und ihre Zerstörung durch Lärmverschmutzung erfahrbar macht. An der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Wissenschaft und Ökologie fließen Neue Musik, Lichtprojektion, Klanginstallation und Film ineinander. Ergänzt wird das Programm durch Diskussionen mit dem Publikum und Schulklassen.
Sonic Ocean ist eine Veranstaltung von S-K-A-M e.V. und eine anerkannte “UN – Ocean Decade Activity”.
PROGRAMM:
Do. 17. November 2022
20 Uhr Soundshield V Performance & Diskussion
Fr. 18. November 2022
12-17 Uhr 6 Islands – Klang- & Lichtinstallation
20 Uhr Sonic Ocean – Konzert*
Sa. 19. Nov. 2022
12-17 Uhr 6 Islands – Klang- & Lichtinstallation
14-16 Uhr Dokumentarfilm “Sionic Sea” & Podiumsdiskussion
20 Uhr Sonic Ocean – Konzert*
Künstlerische Leitung: Céline Papion
Klangregie & Live-Elektronik: Oliver Sascha Frick
Lichtprojektion: Laurenz Theinert
Musik von: I-lly Cheng (UA), Paul Clift, Georg Crumb, Oliver Sascha Frick (UA), Slavek Kwi (UA), Mutter Natur
Musik mit: Buckelwal, Emiliano Gavito (Flöte), Brigitte Helbig (Klavier), Krustentieren, Slavek Kwi (Performance), Nikola Lutz (Saxophone), Céline Papion (Cello & Performance), Pilotwal, Schallkanonen, Olivia Steimel (Akkordeon), Eveline Vervliet (Live-Elektronik Assistenz) u.a.
Klang-& Lichtinstallation: Slavek Kwi & Laurenz Theinert
IFAW Kommunikationsmanager & Biologe: Andreas Dinkelmeyer
Projektleitung: Bissera Nikolova & Céline Papion
Moderation und Vermittlung: Cosima Obert
Grafische Gestaltung: Denise Kurkowski
Web: Joerg Hildenbrand
IN KOOPERATION MIT IFAW, Gedok Stuttgart, Forum Hospitalviertel e.V. , Hospitalkirche Stuttgart, Piano Fischer, Johannes-Brenz-Schule und Evangelisches Heidehof-Gymnasium
GEFÖRDERT DURCH Kulturamt Stuttgart, Musikfonds, Die Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Rahmen von NEUSTART KULTUR, Impulsprogramm „Kultur nach Corona“ des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg, The Eric Stokes Fund – Earth’s Best in Tune und National Culture and Arts Foundation