The deep sea is both a medium for sound and a planetary stratum—the closest to the earth’s mantle. In this shifting zone, where tectonic plates fracture and the earth reshapes itself, sediments, clouds and underwater mountains carry the echoes of countless beings and layered histories.

Turbulent Rot is a collaborative performance by Caitlin Berrigan and Samuel Hertz that listens into these resonant depths. Through text and spatialized sound, the artists summon the voices of deep-sea a/biota—creatures, currents and matter both living and non-living. These voices emerge, converge, converse and dissolve again into aquatic foam.

A sonic and poetic composition, the performance offers a sensorial passage into underwater worlds where geology, ecology and memory coalesce in vibration and reverberation.