Telluric Variation

Sound installation

Telluric Variation is a travelling installaion that dives deep into the soil of the host exhibition space. The work shows the shifting electroscapes of material in the ground’s sub-surface. Highly amplified signals permeate the conductive soils; bending, tweaking, reflecting, and distorting the magnetic telluric currents flowing deep down. 

Vertical strata of rocks, soils, and metals slump over time due to climatic variation, disturbing the porous materials below. As the minerals fluctuate, telluric currents also shift in an ever-developing sonic dialogue. The magnetic data stored and amplified by the ground properties of the site are decoded by a geo-tool hand built by the artist. The Earth becomes a substrate for listening, in which the underground filters and displays electro currents of out time. The installation is built for long-term listening where the attuning to deep-time frequencies can be experienced. The work has run for 4 years in the soil under the artists studio and been showcased during festivals, and gallery spaces for 6 months. 

The work borrows from scientific measuring devices which have been re-purposed for the act of listening rather than data collection.