4. Philodendron [Side A]

The Anthropocene

3. Geranium [Side A]

2. Mediterranean Basil [Side A]

1. Garlic Chives [Side A]

6. Sansevieria [Side B]

5. Rose [Side B]

4. Philodendron [Side B]

3. Geranium [Side B]

2. Mediterranean Basil [Side B]

1. Garlic Chives [Side B]

Darren Tynan is an interdisciplinary artist from Perth, Western Australia. As a sound designer, he uses serendipity as a generative apparatus. 

His first album, the Anthropocene, is a two-sided collection of aleatoric virtual piano compositions produced through human-plant collaboration. 

To create the work, Tynan implemented chance-based devices including dice rolling, a virtual instrument algorithm, and bio-sonification, the process of turning the electrophysiological processes of living entities into sound. 

Compositional limitations informed by American composer John Cage and ambient music pioneer Brian Eno were applied to indeterministic passages of MIDI data collected from plants’ electrical signals. 

The work explores the vacillation between power and powerlessness and the horror and mystery that characterises living in the Anthropocene, a proposed geological epoch that acknowledges the magnitude and scale of human-induced changes to Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. This practice-based research was conducted as part of an Honours project called Aleatoricism and the Anthropocene, which can be downloaded here: https://www.darrentynan.com/theanthropocene

Darren Tynan

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