UNDER BOOM is a hallucinatory club experience driven by shockwaves caused by human activities. Flickering images orchestrated by infrasonic beats highlight humanity’s impact on Earth.

With sounds of mining blasts, burning space debris, air strikes, atomic bangs, sonic booms, seismic guns, and the calving of ice sheets, UNDER BOOM is framed as a listening station to imagine society’s shifting sonic world. The work stems from the discovery of a listening island in the mid-Atlantic, which due to its geo-positioning and low noise ratio is hyper-sensitive to long-wave sounds. Through the intimacy and intensity of techno club experiences, the work allows for alternative modes of listening and offers a different way to perceive our changing climate.

Louis Braddock Clarke is an artist and researcher interpreting notions that stem from art, geography, physics, and philosophy. Listening and amplification as creative methods have become key to their work relating to disrupted ecologies.

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