Vox Animalium is a sculptural process involving water and sound. Water is used to dampen the sound. A sound is submerged
at different depths in the water retention basin. The work operates with different volume levels of animal existence. Taking advantage of the water level of the dried-up lake, animal sounds muffled by water are released from loudspeakers through
a process of increasing dryness during the summer, in order to thus transform animal voices from audio recordings. Visitors experience how the voices of the animals, which have disappeared into the depths, are gradually released over several weeks
and emerge from the water realm as increasingly unmuffled, even unmuffled voices.

The physical experience of the volume is made possible by the positioning of the sound sources on the jetty, the stones near the shore and in the middle of the water hole, and the variably flooded membranes, which allow the sound to be submerged.

Acoustically penetrating the material, this installation makes the heating of our planet audible.

Technical team: Oleg Makarov and René Henry