This sound composition is based on research by palaeontologist Ivan Kuzmin.
The project was presented at the Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art (Curators Stas Kazimov and Maria Grabareva) in cooperation with the Paleontological Museum of Saint Petersburg State University (Director Dmitry Grigoriev).
Sprouts break through a pile of concrete rubble. We hear sounds from them that might have been heard by living beings 200 million years ago in the Mesozoic era. The concrete fragments are casts of bones from one such animal, a hydrosaurus, found in a dinosaur graveyard located within the city limits of Blagoveshchensk. From the loudspeakers, we hear the sounds of animals and insects that lived at that time, as well as their descendants, whose sounds we can recognise today: alligator, snake, ostrich, turtle, cicadas, etc. Based on these sounds, an artist has created a possible field recording.
Through the bones of the animals that lived in those times, the past sprouts sound in today's urban reality.