This sound installation plays tracks from To the Core, and For the Record, a research-based musical record that uses local geological data and history to create a counter-archive conveying Indigenous history and ways of relating to the Earth. The project is also inspired by philosopher Edouard Glissant's theories of relationality and opacity from The Poetics of Relation.

 

The record has four songs containing data sonification and sound archives, including data from the Newark Basin Coring Project, sea level variations at Jersey Shore, and electromagnetic plant data from the Rutgers Ecological Preserve. It was produced in collaboration with New Brunswick-based artist Miguel Romero-Trejos and with research support from geologists at Rutgers' Earth and Planetary Sciences Department.