Overtoon

Erik Nerinckx captured the tempestuous natural power of the sea in an all-embracing recording: Thalassa! Thalassa! As the visitor walks past he or she is met by a massive wall of sound, an overwhelming murmur coming from sixteen speakers. As he or she walks further that sound becomes more nuanced: an auditory reconstruction of a coastline. In Phonautogram, artist duo VOID visualise the sounds of the sea. They make its water visible by using the 19th-century phonautograph technique of recording sound as visual squiggles. Finally, Norwegian visual artist Cecilia Jonsson presents a work that highlights the pollution of Bruges’s water.