remote/displaced is an immersive audiovisual concept album by quietSpeaker based around a physical place: Öljysäiliö 468, a vast, decommissioned and repurposed oil tank by the sea of East Helsinki.

The acoustics of this place are extremely peculiar due to its shape and materials, with long reverberation times, shimmering echoes and immersive radiating patterns. In addition, it is an almost magical site for a modern times sonic ritual, due to its appearances of a relic of fossil fuel culture, its position by the shore, and its nature, in- between a closed industrial space not meant for humans and a shell open to the surrounding land- and soundscapes, that constantly filter and reverberate in its open cavity.

The project takes the shape of a collection of brief immersive audio-visual visits to this special remote place, exploring ways to listen to the encounter between sound, technology, space and landscape, as it emerges like a precarious ecosystem, where the boundaries between natural and artificial get constantly renegotiated and deformed by technology.

In-between physical and virtual space, the brass instruments, an array of recycled sonic devices, the light, the wind and the sea waves, filtering through the holes on the metallic reverberant surfaces, transform one another.

remote/displaced was originally presented to Ars Electronica 2020 festival, with the

360° video experiences accessible through a virtual reconstruction of the Silo, realised in the social VR platform Mozilla Hubs. There the audience could use a wide array of technologies, from VR goggles to mobile phones or personal computers, both remotely and in situ during the festival.