moss listening
(2023)
collaboration with Pheobe riley Law
sugars,
starch light
Blankets, oceanic layers across place. Symbiotic colonisations, sonically intense, revealing their vast, shifting micro-environments.
Moss Listening features recordings (traces) of the inner sounds of common moss species, the soil horizons they maintain and myhychorizal shifts, recorded with self-built microphones. Organ tones mirror systems of circulation and flow, alongside performative objects and touch referencing climate stress and re-connection.
mutli channel diffusion, performative objects, moss
(photo by Pheobe riley Law)
Sonic Acts, Amsterdam - February 2024
first performance at Science Art Festival, Matsudo, Japan - October 2023
photos from performance at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024
(photos by Pieter Kers)
Hannah Pezzack's essay 'Under the Spell of the Sensuous' is now available via hethem.nl & features a response to 'moss listening' performed by myself & Pheobe at Sonic Acts
"The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World by David Abram is a defining text in ecological thought. Revisiting the seminal work nearly 30 years after it was published, Amsterdam-based British writer Hannah Pezzack explores its themes of animism, entanglement, and sensorial encounters."
thanks to Hannah for her insights & to Maud Seuntjens & all at Sonic Acts for inviting us
