In 1983, a team of researchers with the Japanese Antarctic Research program conducted an experiment freezing tardigrades, a microscopic animal that is known for their unearthly resilience. A frequent inhabitant of moist moss, the team froze the microscopic creatures in a frozen sample of moss at -20 C for 30 years and 6 months. In 2014, a separate team defrosted the tardigrades, and over the course of two weeks, the animals very gradually regained control of their limbs, and a few even went on to reproduce successfully.
During this 30 year span, the tardigrades entered “cryptobiosis,” a “physiological state in which metabolic activity is reduced to 0.01% of what is normal”.
With fixed media that explores the frequency spectrum below 30 hz and above 7000 hz inside the bass clarinet multiphonics, cryptobiosis examines sounds that are more felt than heard, volatility, purity vs. impurity, and the ambiguity of inanimate vs being.

for amplified baritone voice, bass clarinet, and electronics 
Performed by Raphael Sacks and Oran Etkin 
National Sawdust, March 2021 
Hildegard Commission Concert

cryptobiosis

Jon Heilbron - double bass
Fredrik Rasten - e-bowed acoustic guitar, composition

Murmurations I (excerpt) - Arches - Jon Heilbron & Fredrik Rasten

part 2/13 on my project gathering Hildegarde Von Bingen & Pauline Oliveros

Atomic Imagery - Rotating Molecules - Particles Dancing - Instantly Vanishing / O Rubor Sanguinis

Awatuka

Premiered by Riot Ensemble and Tyler Bouque. Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.
Commissioned by the Gaudeamus Foundation.

For Baritone, Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Double Bass, and Percussion
no processing or fixed media (in the traditional sense)

consumed; teeth shut (2022)for Baritone, Soprano, Bass Clarinet, Trombone, Double Bass, & Percussion

Duo Chaudron Sonore
Maurice Langlois & Félix Blume
15 Mai 2023 

Enregistrement réalisé dans le cadre du projet "Le Chaudron Sonore"
https://felixblume.com/chaudronsonore

Duo Chaudron Sonore - Maurice Langlois & Félix Blume

Begin quietly with this, as one of the Ravens will perch and call right in front of the microphones, before receding into the distance, again. While it's up close, listen for the quiet 'after-voicing' at the end of many of its calls.

Recorded on land of the Danggali and Meru peoples. Unprocessed recording (96/24 > 48/24).

2023.05.19 Australian Ravens (Corvus coronoides). Mallee Country. Morning. Late Autumn.

A hug to die
(for 8 musicians)

Inspired by the play "The Pillowman", of the contemporary playwright Martin McDonagh.

Ensemble Intercontemporain
Dylan Corlay direction
Megaron - Athens Concert Hall

A hug to die (2023)

sound art series based on the poetry collection "Stories Untold"

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people were falling in the streets
shivering in agony, for what they saw would hit them
like a bolt, scalding them from within,
the Great War was now inside them

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I am buried
with you, and the others
in the trenches of shame, all piled up
& covered with sickening laughter.
Our eyeballs are rubbed with injustices,
ears deafen by rumble of terror,
hearts numbed with trepidation,
limbs soaked in repugnant lies,
minds bleached by virtual ordure.
They murder, they rape, they rob.
They bury. Me, you,
and the others.
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this 21-minute long sound work is a forest tale about war, re-imagined from the perspective of the land that witnessed centuries of socio-cultural turmoil. tamed nature versus wilderness, contaminated versus protected land, the Iron Curtain belt saw some significant changes – from being a brutal barrier between East and West strewn with mine fields, to becoming a highly protected European natural heritage.

the somewhat tense, suffocating and dark-sounding atmosphere of this piece reflects my feelings on possible relations between former and present conflicts, and alludes to the harsh consequences necro-politics of the past are imposing on contemporary society.

the stunning forest microbiome researched in this work is now part of the European Green Belt, formerly the Iron Curtain borderlands between Austria and Czech Republic. 

released September 14, 2023

sounds gathered during SHAPE+ musikprotokoll residency, July 2023, kindly hosted by Kulturzentrum – Garage Druzba, Harrachstal.

all sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
hydrophone built by Jez riley French
mastering La Plant Studio

Bandcamp

for what they saw would hit them like a bolt

Piece for prepared solo piano written as a tribute to John Cage, in 2012
The idea was to describe an imaginary sculpture, a big mechanical mobile and its movements. Musical automaton.

Michelle Agnes, piano


Recording and mix Ulrich Schneider

Mobile for solo piano (2013)

I Sing the Body Electric (2020)
by Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Claudia Jane Scroccaro, live electronics
Arnaud De la Celle, sound engineer
Mikhail Malt, Encadrement Pédagogique

Recorded the 1st of July 2020 in the Grand Salle du Centre Pompidou
Manifeste Festival 2020 - IRCAM, Paris

cryptobiosis

lauren siess

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