Soundtrack for film 'We're Always Touching Underwater'

We're Always Touching Underwater is a new film work by Erin Coates, with music by Alice Humphries and me! The soundtrack features an adaptation of ‘Where All is Blue’, a sliding, sinking, watery sounding work for aluminium tubes, crotales and vibraphone.

This work was filmed in Walyalup waters over a series of dives as the seasons changed and the ocean turned cold. It captures small, very close up moments with slow intimacy – drifting over a tiny field of luminous green macroalgae or peering into a knot of foraging catfish. It also registers profound and ominous transformations; ecological change, the passing of human life and the drift of time.

Recorded by Al Mclean in the David Li Digital Hub at Monash University, I was funded through an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DE200100555) by the Australian Government.

The film will be premiering in the Walyalup Waters exhibition at PSAS Arts Space for Wayalup Festival on 11 August 2023 and showing until 20 August.

Have a look at the teaser below.

TEASER: Erin Coates, We’re always touching underwater, 2023, 7:31 minutes, video, with sound composed by Alice Humphries with percussion by Louise Devenish. Image courtesy the artist and Moore Contemporary.