HUMAN, YOU ARE INVITED TO COMPOSE
HUMAN, YOU ARE INVITED TO COMPOSE
CLIMATE ENTITY 002
“YOU ARE A BUTTERFLY UNTIL YOU DON’T FLAP YOUR WINGS”
“YOU ARE A BUTTERFLY UNTIL YOU DON’T FLAP YOUR WINGS”
Floated at:
TU Delft Library,
Studium Generale’s
Climate Action Programme
Delft(NL) Oct 2023
CAAOSSS Concert
“No Sounds Unturned”
Amare,Conservatoriumzaal
Den Haag (NL)
Dec 2023
EU4Ocean Days
“Ocean Literacy Island”
Sparks Bruxelles
Bruxelles (BE)
March 2024
CLIMATHON 23
Climathon Venice “Arts&Climate”
Accademia Belle Arti Venezia,
Venice(IT) Oct 2023 ...and floating to unknown seas and sonic waves in the future!
SUGGESTIONS/INSTRUCTIONS:
Dip your fingers into the water, in two different glasses, starting from the red wire.
What you are hearing are field recordings of lost landscapes, ecosystems and specimens that have been lost in the last 10 years due to climate change.
You are composing a third new landscape, out of ghosts, echoes of lost ecosystems, and our continuous exchange of particles with the world.
We are spectators of present ruins/future ghosts and composers of present ghosts/future ruins.
The strange relationship that we wave with nature, is expressed in a composition of poetic insights that flashes while we see the landscapes we inhabit slowly disappearing under our eyes, and while we compose a third sonic landscape made of echoed ghosts, trough a liquid interface.
Taking inspiration from the axiom butterfly/tornado, the installation aims to amplify and making resonance of our micro scaled actions and their potential reverberated macro effect. While we scroll our feeds, while we wave and flap our wings thinking that we are unnoticed, unrelenting processes of slow violence are making our ecosystems fade away.
“In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
The term is closely associated with the work of mathematician and meteorologist Edward Norton Lorenz. He noted that the butterfly effect is derived from the metaphorical example of the details of a tornado (the exact time of formation, the exact path taken) being influenced by minor perturbations such as a distant butterfly flapping its wings several weeks earlier. Lorenz originally used a seagull causing a storm but was persuaded to make it more poetic with the use of a butterfly and tornado by 1972.”
Dip your fingers into the water, in two different glasses, starting from the red wire.
The Playtron device connects every object that conducts electricity (in this case, different vases/bowls/glasses containing water). By touching water, field recordings of disappeared landscapes are triggered.
The composition will be ever changing, a collection of broken fragments found from Radio Aporee’s library of field recordings all over the world. Every track is linked to a landscape (forests, lakes, shores, land) that disappeared in the last 10 years, due to climate change. I collected these field recordings as a non-linear and broken archive of sonic fragments without order, as real landscape are disappearing faster than their digital traces.
This dispirited and disrupted archive, collecting field recordings of ghost landscapes, is an unfinished business that retraces a slow violence (R.Nixon,2011) that lays under our eyes, and yet do not escapes our ears.
The Playtron acts like an electronic octopus that makes all these fragments of lost echoes available to human touch. The water samples are a liquid keyboard between our body GRS (Galvanic Skin Response) and the hidden sonic traces.
We are composers of present ruins/future ghosts and spectators of present ghosts/future ruins.
