SONIC ALLEGORIES / FOAM

Sonic Allegories //

A collaborative project with Robertina Šebjanič

 

​This series of sound projects explores the sonic atmospheres of liminal spaces—those barely perceptible environments in transition, where margins, limits, and borders can be reimagined. Robertina Šebjanič and I have anchored our work in specific locations, uncovering the hidden sonic dimensions of these transformative spaces.

 

 

Our first sound art project, AviaAquatoCene, delved into the sonic landscape of the Cantera Oriente Reserve in Mexico City. The second project, TerraAstroCene, taok the form of a sonic walk through the Crómlech de los Almendros in Évora, Portugal.

 

The third installment, Foam, centers on the iridescent sea foam found along the shores of Jeløy Island, which itself serves as a metaphor for rethinking the concept of nature. This foam—with its shimmering interplay of synthetic and natural elements—embodies the intricate entanglement of the industrial and the organic, across the myriad entities that inhabit our planet. Through glass and sound, Foam offers a meditation on presence and absence, echoing the ebb and flow of the sea.

 

As a whole, Sonic Allegories investigates sites where nature reclaims human-altered spaces—environments that invite us to reconsider the boundaries between the synthetic and the organic, the tangible and the ephemeral, fostering new ways of listening to and perceiving the world around us.