FODI: The In-Between | 03.5 | Within Salt | B-Side

During Sydney’s most recent lockdown, sound artist Alexandra
Spence submerged a 15 minute-long piece of cassette tape in
seawater. The cassette tape contained a field recording of waves,
and a recording of Alex’s voice offering a non-definitive, and
non-hierarchical list of things found in the Pacific Ocean. The
resulting physical deterioration of the magnetic tape and
degradation of the audio recording can be heard in this
composition. ‘Within Salt’ is a short piece that responds to Lee
Vinsel’s take on entropy and the breaking down of technology,
along with Tyson Yunkaporta’s words on the importance of story
and of preserving nature over data.


Produced by The Festival of Dangerous Ideas, The Ethics Centre
and Audiocraft.