Field recording by Henry Hoffman
Introduction by Tamsin Cunningham
Listen to the sound of a cave in evolution.
This recording captures the fall of water down into the depths of the chasm; a slow and constant process of carving and sculpting as each droplet helps to shape the Cave’s limestone spaces. Between the above and the below is the place where the moisture of the rainforest gathers momentum, becoming a force strong enough to pit stone and bore through mountains. This in-between space is also the domain of the Tayos birds; the oilbirds which give the Cave its name and whose otherworldly calls serve as a reminder that this is a realm unlike anything that sits above the surface.
What you hear here is a project of years, decades, centuries. A reminder that whilst we might live in a world of minute by minute updates and instantaneous change, there are still places which follow a different pace. What might seem like a void can in fact be a space of great and active change if we stopped to look through the lens of a different timescale. What change might occur in your own life if you allowed it time to evolve? What appears like a void or a pause but might just be a space of incubation and evolution?
As you listen to the shaping of a powerful place, what power can you lend to the place of the in-between?
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