Radio Amnion: Sonic Transmissions of Care with/in Oceanic Space


Radio Amnion is a multi-year audio project commissioning and streaming new compositions of affirmation, joy, elegy and lament into, for, through, and with/in the Pacific Ocean - more than 2kms deep. Radio Amnion has invited contemporary artists, musicians, and researchers interested in sending soundings and voicings of care for the primordial / amniotic waters of Earth with transmissions beginning on the full moon of June 2021. Subsequent transmissions occur on the following full moons.



The Radio Amnion Sonic Platform is attached to a submerged cubic kilometre ‘neutrino telescope’ experiment with the SFB1258: Neutrino and Dark Matter Group of the Technical University of Munich which, entangled with the waters, searches out imperceptible cosmic particles. The ‘P-ONE’ telescope is in collaboration with Ocean Networks Canada: a vast underwater oceanographic observatory monitoring marine ecosystem function, deep-sea biodiversity, and multiple geological dynamics across hundreds of kilometres.


Image courtesy of Ocean Networks Canada: NEPTUNE Observatory map showing location of Cascadia Basin

A recent text on TBA21 Ocean Archive: (Sonic) Care for the Oceanic Other and a recent podcast contribution to Magical Fresh & Salty Conversations

Radio Amnion was presented at TBA21’s Ocean Space during the opening ceremonies of the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, and has been exhibited in Postscript of Silence at Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai; Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries, The 23rd Triennale Milano; Othering at Dittrich & Schlectreim, Berlin; Becoming Fresh and Salty Drops of Water, Ocean Space, Venice; and as An Oceanic Hearing in Ecological Futurisms at AmbikaP3, London.

This cosmopolitical project has also contributed to a co-authored, peer-reviewed transdisicplinary journal article: Doubling Down on Wicked Problems: Ocean Art Science Collaborations for a Sustainable Future in “Frontiers in Marine Science”, Vol 9, 2022.

Please see the dedicated website for info on all compositions: https://radioamnion.net


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  We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. canadacouncil.ca
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