Composition More tuge / The Sea of Sorrow released on a seasonal compilation by objects & sounds collective from Ghent, Belgium.
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Artwork by Letterlik
Words (compilation) by Allie Hatch
Words (about the work More tuge / The Sea of Sorrow) by Manja Ristić
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Port of Gruž. One of the most frequent wharves on the Adriatic, where fast sea lines constantly arrive and depart for all the islands and for all major cities of the southern and central Adriatic. And right next to it, lazily and with the great hubbub of ocean-going engines, monstrous cruisers, cities on the water, the biggest polluters on the planet, are anchored. On the other side of the bay, hundreds of yachts, sailboats, excursion boats, and even those that look like medieval galleys from fairy tales, swing on their heavily paid moorings which provides them with technical water and electricity, and washing of the decks with heavy chemical detergents; also allows them dropping of faeces as they please, or engine idling, if nothing else due to the air conditioning running, or to keep the oversized refrigerators and the generator-run stoves going. I wonder what kind of life is it without a private chef and numerous crew crammed into intermediate spaces with bunk beds and not even half a meter of passage? I tried to enter the anchorage area of the cruise ship to record the giant ship's engines with a hydrophone, but security chased me away. I tried to find a hole in the fence in that 2-kilometre-long dock, but I couldn't find it. A high and glowing, densely cast metal fence defends modern Dubrovnik better than a historical fortification. So I recorded in the local port, and the guys from the port authority who coordinate the catamarans were betting whether my hydrophone will fall apart from all those excrements, while I'm capturing the underwater daily dread of the devastated Gruž ecosystem.
Fortunately, summer doesn't last forever.
More tuge / The Sea of Sorrow is a continuation of the work Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing? dealing with underwater sound pollution. The work is an unsettling sonic journey revealing the dystopian realm of Adriatic noise contamination, due to increased water traffic and the insatiable urge for the expansion of industry and tourism. The work consciously exposes a disturbing marine reality in which an inexhaustible amount of mechanical sources are literally grinding the underwater soundscape.