Over the past years we have be­gun re­search into the nature of sound. Start­ing with a vac­u­um tube pow­ered os­cil­lo­scope, read­ing sine waves and look­ing at their vis­ual rep­re­sen­ta­tion. We learn that two sine waves, phased 90 de­grees, can cre­ate the im­age of a per­fect cir­cle. With slight tweaks in fre­quen­cy and tone we can build any im­age we de­sire, but what held my curios­i­ty was the re­sult of cer­tain ba­sic fre­quen­cies.

The vis­ual rep­re­sen­ta­tion of tones and their har­monics be­tween 20hz-200khz. With­in this reg­is­ter we begin to re­ceive fa­mil­iar im­ages, the man­dala, cy­mat­ic shapes, the fi­bonac­ci se­quence, all the “big names” start to ap­pear on our xy plane. This led us to a search into the his­to­ry of sound, past all the new age heal­ing cer­e­monies into our ar­chi­tec­tur­al past. Through­out the world but specif­i­cal­ly in West­ern Eu­rope you have a his­to­ry dat­ing back to the ne­olithic era of caves and cav­erns not only be­ing uti­lized for their nat­ur­al acoustic qual­i­ties and in­stru­men­tal capa­bil­i­ties, but also ex­pert­ly ad­just­ed by hu­mans to res­onate at spe­cif­ic fre­quen­cies. Mean­ing that with the right vi­bra­tion, the space it­self can be ac­ti­vat­ed, adding its own lay­er of sound, a har­mon­ic drone. We aim to cap­ture this an­cient sound, and the sound of acoustic and con­tem­po­rary elec­tron­ic in­stru­ments in­side of these Ne­olith­ic sites. We would also have the op­por­tu­ni­ty to cap­ture spa­tial record­ings for preser­va­tion. This first step un­der the earth would be the key­stone of a se­ries sur­round­ing our hu­man histo­ry with sound. A con­tain­er to un­der­stand the evolu­tion of the hu­man re­la­tion­ship to vi­bra­tion, an archive of
an­thro-acoustic ar­chae­ol­o­gy.

Our project, earth­wor­m.live, is fo­cused on il­lu­mi­nat­ing the un­known in hu­man­i­ty’s his­to­ry, par­tic­u­lar­ly the re­la­tion­ship be­tween humans and their world through sound. We are es­pe­cial­ly in­ter­est­ed in struc­tures built with in­ten­tion­l acoustic de­sign el­e­ments that res­onate at spe­cif­ic freq­uen­cies. With the right vi­bra­tion, these spa­ces can be ac­ti­vat­ed, adding their own lay­er of sound, a har­mon­ic drone.

We seeks to un­der­stand the in­ten­tion be­hind it. We have an earnest cu­rios­i­ty about how the unique acoustic prop­er­ties of each site in­ter­act with the mu­sic cre­at­ed with­in it, and how the sound it­self may in­spire the space in re­turn.