Geologic Techno: Listen to the Earth Beat

Geologic Techno: Listen to the Earth Beat is a program about creating and experiencing a new type of techno music which transforms the seismic waves generated from the Earth’s movement into the techno sound. The program consists of six sessions of lecture, four sessions of workshops and two lecture performances. Held every Saturday afternoon from July 23 to August 27, of the course of scholarly lectures are the open research which will collectively contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the principles of earthquake, visualizes kinetic energy and sound waves, energy consumption, mechanic culture and sound mixing generated by mechanical instruments that are present in our daily lives yet remain imperceptible. The production workshop is an open laboratory for geologic researchers, techno musicians and an audio engineer to transform the seismic waves from off-grid locations into the sound wave while expanding geologic imagination and experiment. The artist’s lecture performances scheduled for the final weekends will share the program’s research findings and allow audiences to enjoy the finished techno music with a live DJ set.
Additionally, a website shares the process, and a catalog documents the production process and outcomes with photos and texts by Sinae Park, Lee Jeongin, and Yoo Ji-seong. The project also produced 12 audio tracks in collaboration with musicians ZEEMAN and ZANEXX.

Open Research

1. Earth and Earthquake 1-Park Seongjun, seismologist
2. Uncomfortable co-living with Earthquake-Hong Tae-Kyung, seismologist
3. Following the History of Techno Music-Lee Daehwa, music journalist
4. Performing and Producing Techno Music-Lee Donghwa, musician
5. Waves and Beats - Connecting and Communicating Everything in the Universe-Kim Taehee, experimental physicist
6. Machine and Music-Lee Youngjun, machine critic