Touchradio

Photograph: Peter Worth Equipment used: 4 x Reson 4042 Hydrophones, rigged for MS recording, post-processed using Max/MSP; Nagra VI recorder. Location: Placencia Bay, Belize. Date: 13th December 2012. Narrative: After a long day of finicky experimentation in the sun, I returned to the bay to wash salt water from the equipment and to hose down. From 1630'37"N, 8822'1"W I looked out on a tranquil evening scene and decided to attempt one last recording. I had recorded throughout the day in shallow coral seas off the coast of Belize. I'd attempted to capture a spatial impression of the clouds of clicks and pops produced by crustacea and who-knows-what; a sound present at almost every ocean location on Earth. In the evening bay one boat was at anchor, a jet ski idled around and I saw a couple of tiny and distant fishing boats. Yet the underwater acoustic landscape was dense, quite different from the gentle evening scene that played out above the water. I assembled this sequence of recordings to share m