Saxophone, percussion, electronics and video version: inter[ARE] (2023)
Commissioned by Popebama
inter[ARE] is a sonic and visual meditation on synthetic-organic hybridities, inter-material entanglements, and cross-species kinship. The term “more-than-human worlds” (D. Abrams, 1996) has been used to call attention through the senses to what exists beyond what is conventionally considered in Western paradigms to be human. This piece attempts to orient us towards environmental sonic and visual fields melded with technological ones, bringing into being a speculative “more-than-human" audiovisual world made up of imaginary cross-species cyborg-organism assemblages and creatural inter-material becomings.
Performed by Popebama at the Splice Institute at Western Michigan University on June 29th, 2022
Erin Rogers - Saxophone
Dennis Sullivan - Percussion
Video animation, mixing and mastering by the composer
Electronics and video-only version: inter[species]inter[materialisms] (2023)
inter[species]inter[materialisms] 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. The piece 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.