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Sound and Sonic Environments

Caves are acoustic instruments. Every drip falling onto a growing stalagmite is both a sound and a data point, and the monitoring equipment in the Vreiko and Apoloustres caves records those rhythms as climate signals. This winter lab invites musicians, sound artists and acoustic researchers to listen to the landscape of eastern Crete. Its subjects include cave drip water, the sea eroding the Minoan town of Palaikastro, the Minoan dam at Choiromandres, and the wind on the Petsophas peak sanctuary. Coastal archaeology here is increasingly a race against rising seas, which gives the lab an urgent counterpoint. Participants explore sonification, field recording and live composition as ways to make environmental change heard and felt.

Lab Participants

Learn more about this labs participants by clicking on their image. Many of the researchers and partners work on several labs, and these connections are shown below. 

Lab Journal and Updates

Throughout the lab, researchers, artists and partners reflect on their involvement in the project. View and follow lab updates here in the form of our shared lab journal. 

Growth and time

20/10/26

Artist Notes

Scott Radnor

Author

Growth / change / nature patterns / geological time and arboreal time.

Conversation in Chainispilios Cave

19/10/26

Artist Notes

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Notes on first day and emerging conversations

Entanglement ponderings en route to Crete

19/10/26

Update

(Zillah) Butler

Author

Thoughts about entanglements, islands, Macfarlane's writing in The Old Ways and thinking about Crete.

A Kettle of Vultures...

17/10/26

Update

Mark Kasumovic

Author

Today we scouted the Day 5 AVL 1 activity to make sure it was accessible on the day… a few surprises and near-disasters along the way!

The morphing caves of Crete.

15/10/26

Artist Notes

Mark Kasumovic

Author

A few reflections on the magic of caves before leaving for the first Artist Venturing Lab.

Lab journal content not yet available, but will be added after the lab start dates. 

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