Jol Thoms

Radio Amnion: Sonic Transmissions of Care in Oceanic Space

Radio Amnion: Sonic Transmissions of Care in Oceanic Space is a multi-year ocean-sound-art project for the life sustaining waters of Earth, commissioning and relaying new artists’ compositions of affirmation, joy, love, and elegy 2.3 kms deep with/in – and addressed to – the Pacific Ocean. During each full moon, far beyond human perception, the dark abyssal fluids of the Pacific Ocean resonate with the frequencies, voices, and soundings of critical emerging contemporary artists. A reverse “Golden Record” of the voyager spacecraft, these inwardly directed, living, ritualistic relays caress a plenum of energies and entities while communicating affirmations of eco-techno-cosmo-logical entanglements between and beyond human, non-human, and more-than-human worlds.

The Radio Amnion Sonic Platform is a networked sound sculpture attached to a submerged multi-cubic kilometre “neutrino telescope” experiment being built by the Technical University of Munich’s “Neutrino and Dark Matter Group” (SFB1258). The “P-ONE” Neutrino telescope is a complex matrixial array of tethered and buoyed “strings” of optical modules submerged by robotic submarine, 2600 metres deep that search for faster-than-light particle interactions in the seawater. P-ONE is deployed 300 kms from the shores of Vancouver Island and is attached to a unique 800 km underwater network of marine and oceanographic monitoring stations called NEPTUNE Observatory of Victoria University’s Ocean Networks Canada.