SATURDAY 27TH JULY

5–7pm MUD Collective
‘our shared georhythms: bodies, scores, mixtures’
A durational performance installation based on field recordings relating to collecting soil and sediment from international locations as well as people’s recent encounters with these physical and sonic samples.

Drop in or bring a mat or cushion to stay for a longer experience

https://worldlisteningday.org/events/our-shared-georhythms-bodies-scores-mixtures/

‘our shared georhythms: bodies, scores, mixtures’ is a durational performance installation based on a series of field recordings made while collecting soil samples across Cambridgeshire, Goa, and Basra, alongside documentation-based recordings made during recent ‘muddy workshop’ environments. These muddy workshops invited participants to seek to understand the role sound can play in encountering and sensing our ecological contexts: from flora and fauna, to soil and sediment.

‘What is presented this evening is a mixture of the original sound material, cut alongside recordings from the sonic umwelt of workshop; the bodies, mixtures, interactions, and space. Here, you are invited to listen, considering past activities, now held in sound, but redistributed as documentation that can be newly performed, encountered, and articulated. Low tones recall slow geological time, while small vibrational speakers are set around the space, holding vocalisations and commentaries from our geologist collaborators in Iraq and India.’

MUD Collective is a sedimentology–art–sound research group collaborating across Iraq, India, France, and the UK.

http://www.mudcollective.org/

Full details

Originally devised alongside sound-art-sedimentology research group, MUD Collective, this performance-installation presents a series of field recordings made while collecting soil samples across Cambridgeshire, Goa, and Basra, alongside documentation-based recordings made during recent ‘muddy workshop’ environments.

These muddy workshops invited participants to seek to understand the role sound can play in encountering and sensing our ecological contexts: from flora and fauna, to soil and sediment. These participatory, performative, and responsive workshops explored how mud – a vital yet often neglected material for sustaining life, and the original (geological) recording device – can be used as both a ‘conductor’ and ‘conduit’ in sensing diverse lifeways and forces in more embodied, intimate states. Through an array of vessels, implements, and sediments, participants collaboratively used materials and bodies to produce sounding assemblages, amplify earthly rhythms, and newly sense material kinships.

What is presented this evening is a mixture of the original sound material, cut alongside recordings from the sonic umwelt of workshop; the bodies, mixtures, interactions, and space. Here, you are invited to listen, considering past activities, now held in sound, but redistributed as documentation that can be newly performed, encountered, and articulated. Low tones recall slow geological time, while small vibrational speakers are set around the space, holding vocalisations and commentaries from our geologist collaborators in Iraq and India.

The sonic dimension traverses (or annihilates) the field(s) between mud and us, inviting a closer encounter with our own bodies, with other bodies, and the body of the earth. As climate crises and the incessant dogma of anthropocentrism compound political and ecological entanglements, we must aspire toward embodied, multi-sensory, and plural knowledge-making.