The underwater world has a wealth of sounds. Dolphins recognise each other by whistling, porpoises orientate themselves by listening to the echo of their click signals and fish talk while drumming, growling, screeching and creaking. However, humans do not pass by the sea silently either. The sonars and propellers of ships, explosives from the oil and gas industry and the grunt of trawl nets being pulled through the seabed pierce the marrow and fin, disrupting the harmony of the soundscape. The Cusk collective brings the underwater world to the stage in all its beauty and brutality in the musical theatre performance Ear to Sea.
In this performance, the young collective Cusk aims to give a voice back to the silenced voices of the sea, and to listen to their representatives in the public debate: the scientists investigating the phenomenon of sound pollution. The starting point of the performance is the search for how scientific language and underwater sound can interact with and be amplified by music and movement.
