How to mend a broken sea? 2024
4K video, color, stereo sound, 19:40 min
The Black Sea is never calm—never truly still. It is a body in constant agitation, its waves restless, its silence always charged with the tension of storms.
The Black Sea stands at the crossroads of Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus. It has long reflected shifting powers and ecological fragility, while serving as a vital hub for trade, energy resources, and contested territories. It gathers the waters of the Danube, Don, Dnieper, and countless other rivers, carrying with them Europe's interconnected colonial past and present.
We transformed a water buoy (an object usually warning of drowning) into a musical instrument. Diana Miron’s performance, rooted in Romanian spectral music, unfolds as a conversation with the sea’s unrest, while she is reading the sea waves as music notation. In this way, the sea's turbulence does not simply inspire the performance; it actively shapes it. Romanian spectralism, in a sense, follows the logic of the sea—unruly, unpredictable, alive; it treats sound not as melody but as presence, rejecting traditional harmony and instead dwelling in the in-between: murmur, resonance, pulse, and friction.
composer & performer: Diana Miron
DOP & editor: Tudor Cioroiu
sound composition: Diana Miron & Laurentiu Coțac
location sound recordist: Laurentiu Coțac
first assistant camera: Tudor Checheriță
color grading: Lucian lordan
project manager Radu Leșevschi
make-up: Andra Mirea
costume technician: Atelier Ștefan Dudu
co-produced by Solitude Project Cultural Association
Courtesy the artist and n.b.k. Video-Forum
4K video, color, stereo sound, 19:40 min
The Black Sea is never calm—never truly still. It is a body in constant agitation, its waves restless, its silence always charged with the tension of storms.
The Black Sea stands at the crossroads of Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and the Caucasus. It has long reflected shifting powers and ecological fragility, while serving as a vital hub for trade, energy resources, and contested territories. It gathers the waters of the Danube, Don, Dnieper, and countless other rivers, carrying with them Europe's interconnected colonial past and present.
We transformed a water buoy (an object usually warning of drowning) into a musical instrument. Diana Miron’s performance, rooted in Romanian spectral music, unfolds as a conversation with the sea’s unrest, while she is reading the sea waves as music notation. In this way, the sea's turbulence does not simply inspire the performance; it actively shapes it. Romanian spectralism, in a sense, follows the logic of the sea—unruly, unpredictable, alive; it treats sound not as melody but as presence, rejecting traditional harmony and instead dwelling in the in-between: murmur, resonance, pulse, and friction.
composer & performer: Diana Miron
DOP & editor: Tudor Cioroiu
sound composition: Diana Miron & Laurentiu Coțac
location sound recordist: Laurentiu Coțac
first assistant camera: Tudor Checheriță
color grading: Lucian lordan
project manager Radu Leșevschi
make-up: Andra Mirea
costume technician: Atelier Ștefan Dudu
co-produced by Solitude Project Cultural Association
Courtesy the artist and n.b.k. Video-Forum