inter[species]inter[materialisms] (2023)
This piece is a sonic/visual speculative meditation on synthetic-organic hybridities, inter-material entanglements and inter-species kin. It is inspired by David Abrams's “More-Than-Human Worlds”, a term used to bring attention through our senses to what exists beyond what is conventionally considered in Western paradigms as human. inter[species]inter[materialisms] orients towards environmental sonic fields as well as technological ones, bringing into being a kind of speculative "More-Than-Human" cross-species-cyborg-organism assemblage. The visual material was generated from a dataset of ~400 photos of minerals trained through Stable Diffusion AI, and the sonic material was generated from recordings of Blue Whales, Bowhead Whales, and Killer Whales taken by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. Saxophone samples were recorded by Erin Rogers.
Premiered at Qualcomm Institute, San Diego, California in June 2023
