BE THE SEA is a collaboration between artist Louise Mackenzie and composer Hayley Jenkins originally commissioned by Sea AIR, part of SeaScapes Co/Lab, Sunderland University, the creative engagement project for SeaScapes: Tyne to Tees Shores to Seas. Our contributors and supporters include Women's Health in South Tyneside, Durham Wildlife Trust, Autism Able, Stronger Shores and Research England. Our extended project team includes field recorder and sound artist, David De La Haye and the Self-Publishing Lab at Sunderland University.
The BE THE SEA project centres around three methods that foreground listening:
• Attunement field-recording activities that zone in on the non-human sounds of the coastal seascape through listening and recording.
• Resonance deep listening activities and voice/instrumental activities that use imaginative and creative strategies to develop an empathic and reflective relationship with the coastal seascape.
• Resilience sound collage activities, sharing what the coastal seascape means for local communities and engendering ongoing stewardship of the coast.
The project is inspired by theoretical practices of Deep Listening and Acoustic Ecology in the work of Pauline Oliveros, Hildegard Westerkamp, Stephanie Loveless, Barry Truax and Bernie Krause.
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