Unreliable Encounters in Jurong (2016)

collaboration with Peter Knight as part of Why listen to Animals: The Abyss of Incomprehension curated by Danni Zuvela and Joel Stern for Liquid Architecture
Thurs 20 October 2016 7pm-10pm
Westspace Level 1, 225 Bourke Street Melbourne Australia 3000

Unreliable Encounters in Jurong is a collaboration based on a field recording I made in the songbird aviary at Jurong Bird Park in Singapore. Using the idea of language as an open structure that continually produces change and renewal, I invited musician Peter Knight to work with me and poetically improvise with this recording using a combination of voice, pre-recorded materials, text and electronically generated sounds. Based on the caged bird trade in South East Asia, our collaboration speculates on how the birds vulnerable to extinction sonically and vocally adjust to living in captivity.

Full text here

Video footage of full performance here - footage by Jason Heller