OBLIQUE SUBDUCTION BY BLOOD MOON PROJECT (30 August - 1 Sept 2023 & 2025)
commissioned by Radio Amnion for transmission via the Radio Amnion Sonic Platform x Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment telescope submerged over the Cascadia Basin 47°N 127°W (-2600m)
Oblique Subduction is a poly-temporal serenade to the Cascadia Subduction Zone (CSZ). There the 'Explorer', 'Gorda' and 'Juan de Fuca' plates converge and are thrust beneath the North American plate into Earth’s mantle.
We dropped into tectonic time to sit with 7700 years in the life of colossal movements and processes of the CSZ. We compressed our human response into 7 minutes - a minute per millenia. At intervals that mirror the rate of their movements, we each take on one voice for each of the three tectonic plates and reflect single tones back into the abyssal plain, one at a time. The three geo-human tones gradually converge to make chords that slowly push and grow into new chords, disintegrating, harmonizing, and at points tremoring into quakes and eruptions.
Awe-struck by this primordial zone, we're honoured to have the opportunity to offer it an expression of our wonder. The first broadcast will be to the waters of the Celtic Sea at Cornwall - while the Pacific Ocean Neutrino Experiment Telescope surfaces for renewal work - and once it and the Radio Amnion Sonic Platform are reinstalled in 2025 it will be broadcast again into the Cascadia Basin and to the Subduction Zone.
Written and produced by Blood Moon Project Mixed by Heloise Tunstall Behrens Mastered by Will Worsley at Coda to Coda
RADIO AMNION: SONIC TRANSMISSIONS OF CARE IN OCEANIC SPACE is a multi-year sound art project for the waters of Earth, commissioning and relaying new compositions by contemporary artists more than 2kms deep with/in the Pacific Ocean. During each full moon, far beyond human perception, the abyssal waters of Cascadia Basin resonate with the deep frequencies and voices of invited artists. All transmissions are relayed in the sea through a submerged neutrino telescope experiment’s calibration system and available online only during the three days of each full moon.
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.
More info on the wider project and access to the next transmission here