Using a specially composed text and sound, alienlike sensational subjectivities of human/tick transspecies encounters are explored, as inseparable from their environment-ing worlds and the ticks microbial cargos. Cross-kingdom relations are conducted via tick sensing of molecular, chemical phrases by which we betray our presence, through secreted volatile signatures.

Arachnid - Tick sensing was inspired by the uncanny sonic textures developed by Antye Greie (AGF) who edited and mastered the TICK TALKs podcasts, her sound work I vs us, Kyla Schuller’s essay The Microbial Self: Sensation and Sympoiesis', and other readings.

Text written and read by Kira O'Reilly Sound and compositional elements by Antye Greie (AGF)

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This work was made as part of TICK ACTs, SOLU, Helsinki June 2021 TICK ACTs presented contemplations and ideas from a collaboration between artists Laura Beloff and Kira O’Reilly on ticks, tick-borne pathogens and their environments.  There is also a series of four podcasts, TICK TALKs which are available to listen to here on the Bioart Society’s Soundcloud page 
bioartsociety.fi/projects/biofric…posts/tick-talks

TICK ACTs and TICK TALKs are part of Biofriction, a European collaboration project committed to supporting bioart and biohacking practices. Biofriction project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

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Arachnid - Tick Sensing by Kira O'Reilly & Antye Greie

SOUNDSCAPE CAMBODIA is  a one hour collage of raw recordings and experimental fusion, based on Laurent Jeanneau aka Kink Gong’s recordings in Cambodia from 2003 to 2007, mostly in Ratanakiri province.

MIXTAPE: SOUNDSCAPE CAMBODIA by Kink Gong

Caro C is a composer, producer and performer of her own brand of creative electronic music ranging from dreamy piano based ambient to more funky chunky beats with bass. Her fourth album “Electric Mountain” is due out in June 2021. This "sonic enchantress" (BBC Radio 3) also creates music and sound design for film, theatre, dance and has performed across Europe. Caro is also the instigator and project manager of Delia Derbyshire Day, an electronic music charity which champions pioneering artists past, present and future. Her expertise in electronic music and passion for authentic expression includes her working as a host of the electronic music podcast channel for Sound On Sound magazine.
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TRACKLIST:
Analog Tara - Density & Surface (2018)
Electric Indigo - Ferrum 7 (2020)
Jlin - Kundalini (2018)
Architects of Rosslyn - State of Nature (2020)
Vicky Clarke - Sleep States (2020)
AGF & Various - Eleni Varikas 1949 (2021)
Pia Palme - The Sampler and the Drum - extract (2019)
Donna Maya - People Mover (2020)
NIET! - Glitter Bridge (2020)
Akkamiau - Kimberella Quadrata (2021)
Sky Deep - Yes I Did (2019)
Tigersonic - When Time Went Weird (2020)
Caro C feat. Kola Tubosun - Holding (2020)

f:p podcast episode 79_Caro C

Bioart Society is a Helsinki-based association developing, producing and facilitating activities around art and natural sciences with an emphasis on biology, ecology and life sciences. It runs SOLU Space, an artistic laboratory and platform for art, science and society in Katajanokka, Helsinki, and - together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki - Ars Bioarctica, an art & science program with focus on the sub-arctic environment. Bioart Society was established in May 2008 and it currently has 127 members from Finland and other countries.

Arachnid - Tick Sensing by Kira O'Reilly & Antye Greie

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