Meet the Earth Crawlers

December 9th 2023
Video
Region
Northern Switzerland
Researcher
Context
Co-creator: Cris Arcos
Source
Sounding Soil, BBC Sound effects, Pexels
Formats
Soundscape
Multimedia
Disciplines
Field recording
Ecoacoustics
Soundscape studies
Themes
Listening as activism
More-than-humans
Time scales

Ants, woodlice, ground beetles, ground beetles, snails, spiders, millipedes, the community we are exploring in our project are the earth crawlers

But who exactly are they? How do they move around? What does life look like so close to the earth? 

We lay our heads on the earth, place our ears against the moss, feel the branches and leaves on the ground, stick our fingers into the humus. We take time to listen, to see what lives beneath our feet, to adjust to a different perception of time. 

It is not easy to recognize what our eye does not immediately see. All these layers of realities, all these sounds and movements are happening simultaneously. Harmonious or dissonant, but together. 

This video is a play with image and sound, layers of different realities that we are not always aware of. 

How does it feel for you to share your existence with someone one billion times smaller than you?