In 2007 Magali Babin was invited to submit a proposal for an excavation sonore. She submitted Bruits de fond, an experimental audio project she had been working on since 2006.

In 2007 Magali Babin was invited to submit a proposal for an excavation sonore. She submitted Bruits de fond, an experimental audio project she had been working on since 2006.

 

The project was based on a trip from Montreal to Percé along the St. Lawrence River, following highway 132. Babin put various home-made hydrophones, each with particular acoustic properties, into the water at various locations. A sound-hunting odyssey in seven stopovers.