"Symphony of Survival: The Blinding Marine Soundscape"
Description: This immersive soundscape, created from recordings provided by bioacoustic scientist Dr. Donatas Bagocius of Klaipeda University’s Marine Research Institute, recreates the underwater acoustic environment of Klaipeda’s industrial harbor. Experience the intense noise pollution that Baltic harbor porpoises, grey seals, Baltic ringed seals, harbor seals, and other echolocation-using marine life must navigate daily.
The sounds you hear include the following:
Baltic Harbor Porpoise Vocalizations
Grey Seal Vocalizations
Klaipeda Harbor Anchorage
Dredgers- (Underwater digging machines)
Pile Drivers- (Machines that hammer poles into the sea floor)
Large Cargo Ships
Fishing Boats
Recreational Boats
Explosions from Oil Rigs
Military Sonar
This installation aims to raise public awareness of our impact on noise levels of local marine ecosystems in busy harbors like the Baltic Coastline of Lithuania, highlighting ways local communities and enterprises can reduce noise pollution and shipping traffic. This will be an ongoing series as I learn more about marine migration patterns and industrial shipping routes I will continue to make site specific underwater soundscapes in more locations throughout the world. A larger-scale goal of this project is to eventually engage corporations that contribute large amounts of noise pollution in these locations in a conversation about reducing their sonic disruption on the marine environments they rely on for profit.