PLUMES, a sound album by Jeff Silva & Mike Bullock
PLUMES emerges from a long-term sonic and ethnographic exploration of the Étang de Berre, a coastal lagoon near Marseille, France shaped by industrial pollution and ecological disruption. Recorded between 2021 and 2024, the album captures fragile entanglements between human activity and more-than-human life. Using hydrophones, ultrasonic detectors, and parabolic microphones, Bullock and Silva probe the lagoon’s submerged acoustics, echolocations, and the overlapping signals of industry and wildlife. Rather than documenting from a distance, PLUMES listens closely to a damaged landscape. It invites us to hear what contamination, survival, and resilience sound like, and proposes listening as a way to inhabit the complexity of a territory in flux.
All tracks recorded by J. Silva and M. Bullock
Cover [right] and gallery [below]: Photos by J. Silva, illustrations and design by M. Bullock
Total run time: 47 minutes
Surface Pressures
Sirènes
Tawny Owls at Cercle de Voile
Tétrodon beach
Bats Among the Ruins
Stagnum Mastromela
“The Venice of Provence”
Croix-Saint Plateau
Casting Lines in the Channel
Living With Cogeneration
From Ponteau Beach to the Calanque de Renaïres
La Fermette de la Croix d’Estrine
