First broadcast on Cashmere Radio in February 2020. POP is a sonic history of snapping shrimp. Named for their defensive ‘snap’ — the loud pop of an air bubble released from their claw when disturbed — snapping shrimp are often heard but rarely seen. In large numbers, these snaps become a chaotic white noise, picked up on hydrophones and synonymous with the sound of the ocean itself. In tracing the shrimp’s histories of sound, noise and silence, POP aims to demonstrate the inevitable kinship between human and non-human life.

Siobhan Leddy