Listening is a form of creative practice and essential part of fieldwork in its own right. These pieces gather field recordings, compositions, and listening experiments, some made on their own, others alongside the films and installations, often from the same longterm multimodal research projects. A few can be heard complete here; others are fragments of larger projects, linked to where the rest of the work lives.
Beyond Silence (2024)
Co-created with Aurélie Darbouret & Boris Pétric
An early sound piece made from hydrophone recordings in the Bay of Marseille, the sonic starting point of the research that became Mare Sapiens and Nous la mer.
Related: Mare Sapiens (film) · Nous la mer (installation) · “Under Pressure” (article)
PLUMES : Listening with a Landscape under Tension (coming 2026)
An acoustic ecology of the Berre Lagoon
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, bat 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.
A cassette edition is forthcoming summer 2026 with Dinzu Artefact https://www.dinzuartefacts.com
An interactive online sonic story map is forthcoming in the fall of 2026.