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Sound pools in Baku akin to crude oil. The covert wavelengths of gossip, tall-tales, ghost stories, and urban legends begin as hushed whisperings and end up travelling across the cityscape, curving around alleyways and ear canals. Sound mimics material strange and unexpected.

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Spectral Sonics is a project concerned with the soundtrack of the modern-day oil city. It seeks to track the audible, or 'barely audible', in order to understand everyday life in resource extraction zones. Through multimodal clips — combining topographic wave maps, video snippets, text-based extracts, and sound recordings —, the website offers a map which goes beyond the visual, inviting users to listen along. 

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The project compliments the work of eavesdroppers and whistleblowers, tracing the quieter registers of harm, toxicity, and environmental violence. It indexes a range of sounds (from the rumbling noise of gas flaring to the calls of long-tailed parrots) which evidence the encouragement of some lives and the drowning out of others.