Sonic Prospecting


Prospecting Soil in a Soil Depleated future




NCAD Field 2024Sonic prospecting is a piece I created as part of the NCAD field. It is a speculative piece following a soil prospector, a person who searches for good soil in the used up wasteland left over after soil exhaustion. All the audio was generated live from sensor and microphone information measuring the environment and the soil gathered during the performance.
Soil depletion is nearing faster than we think. Due to many of the practices used in our modern industrial agricultural food system there are only so many more harvests of good soil left. What will the reality of this future look like when our most important and least respected resource is depleted?