Rhone
4k video / 09:35 loop / 4.1 audio / 2019
RHONE is a site specific research project, result of a 3 month recording expedition to the Rhone Glacier, the birthplace of one of Europe's biggest rivers. This giant bodie of Ice was the biggest Glacier of the Alps in the last Ice Age, and the main responsible for the geologic formation of the Swiss Lac Leman and the valley that precedes it.
By using high sensibility hydrophones, and microphones, several recordings were conducted on different locations of the Glacier, these include: Ice tunnels, the mountain range and a Gravel Factory that operates on the Glacier´s end.
The recordings were made with special attention to low frequencies and infra-sound. Infrasound corresponds to a range of frequency below human hearing capacity, these can be produced both in the movement of the Glacier and in big mechanic industrial complexes.
Rhone creates an audiovisual portrait of a landscape that is constantly changing and expected to disappear within few decades, the recent retreat of the Glacier has seen the creation of several industrial gravel industries that operate on its footsteps, collecting, sorting and transforming glacier geological sediments, fundamental to the cement construction Industries.
This project was shown under a recent Solo Show, part of the WRO Biennal of Media Art, in Poland. And awarded by the European EMAP production grant. The video piece is part of a group of Installation Sound Artworks that actively use the sounds recorded on-site during a 3 month expedition to the Glacier.
Research fund: La Becque Artists in Residence, Switzerland
Production fund : EMAP
Presented at: WRO Media Art Biennale - Wroclaw Poland
Sibersalz Festival for Science and Media - Halle, Germany
All images and sound recorded on site by the Artist.
©Gil Delindro 2019
For further documentation on the Artworks please visit - http://www.delindro.com/rhone.html
4k video / 09:35 loop / 4.1 audio / 2019
RHONE is a site specific research project, result of a 3 month recording expedition to the Rhone Glacier, the birthplace of one of Europe's biggest rivers. This giant bodie of Ice was the biggest Glacier of the Alps in the last Ice Age, and the main responsible for the geologic formation of the Swiss Lac Leman and the valley that precedes it.
By using high sensibility hydrophones, and microphones, several recordings were conducted on different locations of the Glacier, these include: Ice tunnels, the mountain range and a Gravel Factory that operates on the Glacier´s end.
The recordings were made with special attention to low frequencies and infra-sound. Infrasound corresponds to a range of frequency below human hearing capacity, these can be produced both in the movement of the Glacier and in big mechanic industrial complexes.
Rhone creates an audiovisual portrait of a landscape that is constantly changing and expected to disappear within few decades, the recent retreat of the Glacier has seen the creation of several industrial gravel industries that operate on its footsteps, collecting, sorting and transforming glacier geological sediments, fundamental to the cement construction Industries.
This project was shown under a recent Solo Show, part of the WRO Biennal of Media Art, in Poland. And awarded by the European EMAP production grant. The video piece is part of a group of Installation Sound Artworks that actively use the sounds recorded on-site during a 3 month expedition to the Glacier.
Research fund: La Becque Artists in Residence, Switzerland
Production fund : EMAP
Presented at: WRO Media Art Biennale - Wroclaw Poland
Sibersalz Festival for Science and Media - Halle, Germany
All images and sound recorded on site by the Artist.
©Gil Delindro 2019
For further documentation on the Artworks please visit - http://www.delindro.com/rhone.html