Interaction Design

Sounds of Magallanes Oceanic Environments

Raviv Ganchrow

Thursday 10 April 2025
17.00 – 18.30
Online on Zoom
Host: Karmen Franinović

How do mammalian abilities of hearing and sounding underwater adapt to marine environments? What interlinks cetacean sounds, seabed topographies and ocean structures? How do human-whale relations refract through maritime and coastal techniques? This talk sets these questions in dialogue with insights and discoveries from recent experimental hydrophone recordings in the Chilean sub-Antarctic archipelago of Magallanes.

Raviv Ganchrow

Raviv Ganchrow researches the interdependencies of sound, locale, and hearing through installations, writing, and the development of transduction technologies. His work examines spatial-material operations of sound in conditions such as environmental infrasound, ocean acoustics, telluric currents, radio transmission and anechoic chambers. Recent installations employ in-situ circuits patched directly into locales, relaying features of contextual dynamics. He publishes, workshops, and lectures broadly on auditory contexts and sonic agency and is currently a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies inherit at Humboldt University, Berlin.