We discuss with Landscape architects Bradley Cantrell and Zihao Zhang the marriage of Speculative Design, Machine Learning, Landscape Architecture, Xenopatterning, and Modeling.

Bradley Cantrell is a landscape architect and scholar whose work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design.He has held academic appointments at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, The Rhode Island School of Design, and the Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. His work in Louisiana over the past decade points to a series of methodologies that develop modes of modeling, simulation, and embedded computation that express and engage the complexity of overlapping physical, cultural, and economic systems. Cantrell’s work has been presented and published in a range of peer-reviewed venues internationally including ACADIA, CELA, EDRA, ASAH, and ARCC.

Zihao Zhang, PhD is an assistant professor of landscape architecture at the City College of New York. By building transdisciplinary, critical analyses at the intersections among design, engineering, and environmental humanities, he investigates interspecies entanglements and interrogates conceptions of humans, nature, and technology in contemporary culture. He studies emerging cybernetic technologies and their ramifications on the constructed environment to expand designers’ understanding of the co-production between machines and ecologies and inspire innovative landscape strategies. Zihao holds a PhD in the Constructed Environment and an MLA from the University of Virginia, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering in Landscape Architecture from Beijing Forestry University.

Cultivated Wildness & Xenopatterning w/Bradley Cantrell & Zihao Zhang(Updated)

Children Of Pan - Mahakala Bhairava

The Seed, The Sinkhole, The Flower and The Flare

Eternal Consequences

Soundcloud curator-turned-DJ, Grrl, handles the wheel one Thursday each month between two and three in the early morning. Neoprene muffled helium vocals bounce over chrome-addled club soundtracks - an extremely broad spectrum of the internet-born club sound.  
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GRRL 090524

Poundcloud

57snakestep - _always_late

Metalheart Realcore w/ hellraiser - 16/05/2024

With their profound take on electronic music, Animistic Beliefs have steadily solidified their spot in the global underground. Influenced by cultural concepts such as ancestry, animism and mythology, as well as the languages of political techno, punk, bubbling and IDM. ‘Animism’ is the idea found in indigenous belief systems that all objects, creatures and places possess a spiritual essence. Pre-colonial thought, traditions and music connected with Marvin’s Moluccan and Linh’s Vietnamese-Chinese heritage are key inspirations and tools through which the duo explore their experience as queer POC living in the Netherlands.

Trans-Fixed w/ Animistic Beliefs @ Kiosk Radio 17.05.2024

No Escape Except Peace w/  Wally & Treglia - 18/05/2024

Petr Bursa is a waxing moon in the Prague experimental electronic scene. His debut EP Heart's Halo lures the listener into an eerie, fog-cloaked landscape, drawing us with a siren-like spell, a beckoning from the sonorous darkness that brings a momentary bewilderment only to wash it away in rushes of tenderness and awe. An ephemeral, yet pressing whisper guides the listener through a liminal journey into the whirl of dizzyingly looped synthesizers, erupting into vocals as tempestuous as frail. The image of being swallowed by mists and swayed by stormy seas is not a mere poetic association, but comprises the very core of Bursa's synaesthetic imaginary. It is an image both frightening and familiar, as universal as it is intimate, expressing sharply the intense reality of a windswept present that feels increasingly impossible to navigate. Bursa’s debut offers us a frosty, melodic consolation that the hardships of self-discovery are shared, and that while the planes of waves appear endless, we never sail them alone.


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released 19 May, 2024

Mastered by Wim Dehaen

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Could be Myself

BEAT A BODY BOOST'D BY v1984 [2014]

Off-centre rhythms, muted electronics & slick modern compositions in a monthly missive from the Bristolian psych-rock jammers... 
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Tara Clerkin 220524

Thanks to everyone who listened to // DIFFRACTIONS // Podcast over the years. There will be no further podcasts, nonetheless, please follow us here:
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Several tracks have been re-uploaded with enhanced sound quality. Thank you to those who listened and will continue to do so from the future into the past.