Fundamental Resonance is a broadcast series exploring a new approach to the audition of acoustic, mechanical, and electromagnetic vibrations. Each episode combines an audio essay with a soundscape, composed of examples of the phenomena discussed, as a way to explore the unreachable, reveal the hidden, and manifest what lies beyond the senses.
Fundamental Resonance is an audio supplement to the art exhibition
Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific
Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University
September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024
as part of PST ART
Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific
Co-presented by Fulcrum Arts and Chapman University
September 15, 2024 - January 19, 2024
as part of PST ART
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 29, 2024
Deep Listening:
Submarine Surveillance, the SOFAR channel, and the Sanctuary Sound Program
This program explores the transformation of a secret military surveillance network into a crucial scientific tool for ocean exploration, and an anomalous feature of a certain part of the ocean that started it all. During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy developed the Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), using underwater hydrophones to detect Soviet submarines by listening to the ocean. This technology, originally designed for surveillance, has since been repurposed for scientific research.
The hydrophones that once monitored the oceans for Soviet submarine activity now form the keystone of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project (SanctSound) and are vital tools to understanding marine life, monitoring earthquake an volcano activity, and enforcing nuclear test bans.
Sourced sounds, all recorded with the SanctSound, formerly SOSUS, hydrophone array: Gray whales, Humpback whales, LFA sonar, Fin whales, boat engines, echosounders, damselfish, and unknown anthropogenic noises. https://sanctsound.ioos.us