VEDEN VIRE is an art–research project exploring how sound, myth, and ecological knowledge can help us reimagine our relationship with water. Working with custom-built sensors, hydrophones, and community fieldwork, the project listens to endangered waters — from the Baltic Sea to darkened rivers — and translates their changing conditions into sound and image.Drawing on Finnish runo tradition and hydrofeminist interpretations of Aino and the Sampo, VEDEN VIRE treats water as a collaborator and storyteller. Its outputs include spatial sound performances, real-time installations, a Songbook of the Sea for children, an online RiverSync portal, and a rights-of-nature toolkit supporting environmental guardianship.
The project asks a simple question: What changes when we truly listen to the waters that sustain us?