Lullaby For Depressed River Mussels, 2024 
MIARD, Piet Zwart Insitute

BioArt Laboratories,
Dutch Design Week, 2025

Developed as a speculative sound installation, the work engages with aquatic environments affected by noise pollution, combining hydrophone recordings of ferries, motor infrastructure, and underwater soundscapes with vocal experiments based on lullaby structures tuned to specific frequency ranges.

The process involves walking, listening, and singing within the site, using voice as a resonant tool that interacts with water-borne vibrations. A hydrophone is submerged to capture underwater sound transmission, translating sonic pressure between surface and submerged environments.

The work acknowledges the extreme sensitivity of river mussels to acoustic disturbance, positioning this fragility as a central condition of the system rather than a representational theme.

Silicone casts of mussel shells function as tactile interfaces that trigger sound events when activated, sending signals back into the water through a responsive system of embedded speakers and electronic modulation. The resulting acoustic field can be accessed through headphones, creating a feedback loop between submerged sound, vibration, and bodily perception.

The installation constructs a speculative non-human listening condition, where human, infrastructural, and aquatic perceptual systems partially translate into one another while remaining fundamentally misaligned.