Commission for TJ Shin's Malaria, Devouring Mother.

Mackenzie: Composition/Arrangement, combining electronics, modular synthesis, digital instruments, and the processing/manipulation of Shin's field recordings

Image: TJ Shin, series from Breath of Preservation, 2023. Herbarium sheet with specimens in the Asteraceae and Rubiaceae family, fungicides, pesticides, smoke, linen, envelope. Courtesy of the artist.

https://jaeyeonshin.com

"Malaria, Devouring Mother is an audio guide to murky ecologies near and far: from a biology lab in Buffalo to the artist's studio in Los Angeles; from the pressure of hydraulic oil fracking to the puncture of a gene gun. The soundscape draws out the parasitic noise of extractive capitalism and the entwined politics of infection between body and geography, and it builds upon Shin's long-term explorations of the historical life of malaria as well as the politics of contamination. Reflecting on the internal rhythm of the parasite, which causes and manifests the cyclical nature of malaria, Shin presents a sonar oscillation between the contamination of pulse, human and non-human bodies, and the rippling legacies of colonialism."

From "Malaria, Devouring Mother" (commission for TJ Shin)

03 - 11 - 2020

Composition: Mackenzie and Maier, combining modular synth, digital instruments, field recording, amplified objects, feedback

Curated by Robin Selk and Jean Brazeau

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Orchid Mantis live at Centquatre-Paris via INA-GRM. Curated by François Bonnet.

 01-06-2023 Excerpt Broadcast On Radio France

Composition: Mackenzie and Maier, composed collaboratively in the artist's studios between Febrary-March 2020, combining modular synth, digital instruments, field recording, amplified objects, feedback

Orchid Mantis (Live @ INA - GRM) Michelle Helene Mackenzie and Stefan Maier

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Fess, 2019 (for Judy Radul, ‘Show Support’)

www.michellehelenemackenzie.com

Michelle Mackenzie writes music for animals, plants, and furies, against bully hypnotists, reptilian sham glam, and world-eating industries. Assemblages arranged from modular synthesizers, found sounds, and layered acoustic saplings.

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