Songs for Caretta Caretta or Low Tide & fFequencies Of Life

Songs for Caretta caretta is an experimental sound performance and sculptural research project that explores the possibility of composing for a non-human listener. The work asks a simple but profound question: What might music become if its intended audience were a loggerhead sea turtle?

Drawing on bioacoustics, marine ecology, and sound art, I will design and build resonant instruments and sculptural objects tuned toward the low-frequency vibrational world inhabited by Caretta caretta. Rather than representing turtles or imitating their sounds, the project creates sonic environments that invite attentive listening across species.The performances are conceived as offerings rather than demonstrations.

They acknowledge that we cannot know how a turtle experiences sound, while remaining informed by scientific research into turtle hearing and underwater acoustics. This uncertainty becomes a central artistic material, opening space for curiosity, humility, and ecological imagination.

Combining instrument making, field recording, performance, and research, Songs for Caretta caretta proposes music as an act of interspecies attention. It invites audiences to reconsider listening as a shared ecological practice and to imagine new relationships between art, vibration, and the more-than-human world.

(UA, 4.10.2026 Ionian Center for Arts and Culture, Metaxata, Kefalonia, Greece, as part of the "We Are Nature 2026"-Festival/Conference)