What does the North sound like if you listen closely?
“Listening Point: the Arctic” is a music documentary created specially for the dome screen of the Lakhta Center Planetarium.
The project is based on a field expedition to the Kola Peninsula, the Khibiny Mountains and the White Sea. The composers and sound artists explore the Arctic space through sound: they record the electromagnetic pulse of the northern lights, the vibrations of ice and stones, the hum of hydro power plants, the breath of the wind and the sea.
The field recordings are taken as the basis for a musical composition where the documentary footage from the expedition, natural acoustics and the composer’s music blend into a single audio-visual space.
This project is about listening carefully to the world to discover the sounds that are usually beyond human perception, and about the chance to hear nature, technology and man talk to each other.
Project by Gazprom and the Lakhta Center
Production company: Consumer Culture
Author of the project: Egor Ananko, Experimental Sound Laboratory of the House of Radio
Composers: Victoria Kharkevich, Andreas Moustoukis
General producer: Daria Zhenikhova