https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/meghan-currier-2nd-march-2022

Meghan Currier - 020322

1. Song of extremophilia: Descende, audax, viator, et terrestre centrum attinges

I have lost count of the time I have been here
I do not really know
but the suitable conditions have taken place to wake up
after several centuries
not knowing how much I could bear
because nobody ever trusts.
This is a lake, I know that.
A lake or a swamp or a river.
Rio Tinto.
Or a pit
And that red acidic water I dye
I metabolise.
I thank my philia for my extreme conditions
The dissent, the dysfunctionality, my abnormal enzymes
even if I do not exist, if they do not conceive me nor classify me
being innumerable, unthinkable
I dwell the furthest, Urras and Anarres
the deepest, the most poisoned, the eight circles of hell, Bacillus Infernus
Deception Island
Xerophile, I have desiccated myself
Halophile, in the Dead Sea
Audaxviator

Verne’s Bold traveler.

60 degrees, isolated, without oxygen, in the dark inside a gold mine in South Africa.
I am an ecosystem of one single species
My mineral environment is dead
I have built my organic molecules
from the decay of uranium,
from the moisture of the soil,
from the inorganic carbon of the rocks,
from nitrogen, from ammonium
here we know neither pure oxygen nor the sun
I have not seen the light for more than 3 million years
This is Mars and Enceladus

mm.rnlls esreuel seecJde
sgtssmf unteief niedrke
kt,samn atrateS Saodrrn
erntnael nuaect rrilSa
Atvaar .nxcrc ieaabs
Ccdrmi eeutul frantu
dt,iac oseibo kediiY

tolerating arsenic
enduring radiation
psychrophile, thermophile,
I fell with the red rain of Kerala
They said my origins were extraterrestrial
from the left hand of darkness
where only the uprooted live
from the consciousness of Faustine
thence descends, Audax Viator
until reaching the center of the Earth


EXTREMOPHILE

E.R. - Running Shoes

FEATURE > inverted-audio.com/feature/sleeperhold-publications-ward-heirwegh-talks-up-patricias-autotomy-ep-and-more

We caught up with @sleeperhold-publications head honcho Ward Heirwegh to discuss the makings of @patriciaaa brand new 'Autotomy' EP. We also discuss the publication's raison d'être, creative cross-pollination and further plans for the future.

Autotomy

Patricia - Dimished Feeling [Sleeperhold Publications]

Lumes

Due for vinyl release on MEANWHILE SOUNDS soon............

CLOUDED HORIZON

Release Date: 20th July 2018 - 12” Vinyl & Digital

PRE-ORDER: https://tinyurl.com/DRIPpreorder

The Drip EP brings together four distinctive producers and one set of sounds - The Drips. The result is a compilation of 4 tracks that bring the swing and sampling of some of Accidental Jnr’s finest to produce a soaking wet dancefloor.

First up is label boss Matthew Herbert with a trademark groove that harks back to his Wishmountain moniker albeit found lurking in the swamp. Cosmo Sheldrake takes a slight departure from his usual multi-instrumentaling live-looping avant-folk to deliver a track that could only be described as travelling circus aqua-techno. Bahraini born, French / US bred and now Edinburgh dwelling video game builder, sound designer and sometime Scottish league football referee Yann Seznec opens the B-side with an absolute stormer of a rain drenched club hook. Sussex based producer Crewdson and builder of such electronic instruments as the Eggiophone and Concertronica closes proceedings with a drizzling evolving 2-step number.

A1 - Matthew Herbert - The Swamp (ACJ108 - THE DRIP EP)

Fahrenheit

Fahrenheit (Sascha Funke Remix)

Exclusive version by Dj Marcelo Mellao aka Dj Dark Side. From lmtd promo compilation "The Dark Side Mixes Volume 17" (coming soon)...

The Force Dimension - Algorythm (Dark Side Re-Edit Mix)

Live at Nyabinghi

Lolomixxx9

This is a story of biopower and biosociality, as well as of technoscience.

Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto.

Ansible shows a space, sound and light display that is arranged to represent recognizable aspects and references at sites such as: laboratories, seed banks and environments for the controlled cultivation of artificial life in living organisms; stores of geological samples and herbarium collections found in contexts such as the Madrid Centre for Astrobiology, associated to NASA; in vitro cultivation of endangered species in the Sao Paulo Botanical Garden; the Institute of Volcanology within the University of Barcelona; the Santiago de Chile Museum of Natural Sciences; and the Seed Bank in Vicuña (northern Chile).

In the recreation of this environment we will not find the usual stabilizing elements but rather others which introduce formal and symbolic variables that contradict the utilitarian logic of scientific simulation or artificial maintenance of life forms to accommodate speculative thinking. Instead of germinating seeds in petri dishes (a simulation of lives that can no longer be found in their endemic ecosystems), we will find fossils of various different plant species which have disappeared or are in danger of extinction, found in historical archives and subsequently carved out on the specular surfaces of obsidian rocks.

This material (crystallized lava) has historically been attributed with being able to connect different worlds; a magic screen or interface between different realities. Here, taken as a dialectical object, it materializes as a fossil, but also as a mirror. This material has the vitreous nature of the vials of seed stock, however it has been processed as a lapidary object; it is a memento mori where materials which act in two different directions are constantly intertwined. On the one hand, they make up the "raw material" of existence, on the other, they point to the problems of a planet in crisis, where we see ourselves as fossils of a future universe, not devoid of life, or thinking - but maybe of ourselves.
In addition two actions will take place in the room with the producer and experimental musician, Lucrecia Dalt, and the programmer and performer, Jan Mech. The constant light temperature, which is usually essential for maintaining artificial life, will be changed using Arduino programming, following the modulation of four sound and text compositions (played by automaton voice overs), which go through dreamscapes of resilient lives; from extremophile sciences, necropolitics, extractivism and artificial life... etc.

* Ansible (from the English word, answerable) is a term coined for science fiction by the writer, Ursula K. Leguin, who describes her invention in her 1974 novel "The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia". 



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