FLOWER

Umwelt is a german word for ‘surround world’. Our experience of “reality” is through the world of our sense organs- and so it is different for every species. Insect-flower-mantis-mycelium-mushroom-us. All of us.


This is an improv performance where I’m using my own sound and transforming it- so as to become insect and flower -through sound. And falling back into being myself. It is an exploration of the state of time and how time is for us. Perhaps trying to see how time would be experienced by a flower or mycelium. In that way- it is a thought experiment, a thought exercise.


An action might last only a moment. But the residue vibration remains - it is what fills the space- the sound in the silences, the threshold level. I’m using puredata to perform simple math on the input sound which is coming from the microphone using the patterns and numbers found in nature. The patches i built for this show are inspired by the bloom right now. By flower. By the sex in flower. By everything that flower is and means and does. By what it makes one feel. Or atleast what it makes me feel. Flower cannot be without insect, should not be without insect, bees, bugs and beetles. And so all those are a part of this performance as well- thorough me- as well as i can carry them through me.



Pauline Oliveros was an American composer and central figure in the development of experimental and post war electronic art music. She coined the term “deep listening”. The aesthetic is designed to inspire performers to practice the art of listening and responding to environmental conditions. Viv Corringham is a vocalist and sound artist who practices and teaches deep listening. I encountered this practice at a sound workshop and felt the simplicity of the instructions to be very useful. I used the instructions to initiate the audience into the sensorial space of our sound.

I’m using PureData - an open source graphical programming language written by Muller Puckett- who is a sound artist.