recording from "If the Lion could Speak": 

During the summer of 2012 Robin Meier and Ali Momeni created an observation bee hive encapsulating the outdoors of the beautiful Domaine Garenne Lemot inside the gallery located in the park. Inspired by the Voyager space probe launched in 1977 the artists create a transparent hive to engage in a dialogue with the bees.

Reinterpreting the music which was included on NASA's Golden Record
and sent into space onboard the Voyager probe to communicate with extraterrestrial life forms the artists play with the universality of organized sounds to create this dialogue.

Half space farers on noah's arc, half alien life form themselves
the bees represent the artists desire for inter-species understanding and cooperation.

Not without a melancholic afterthought,
the title for this piece quotes Wittgenstein's famous phrase:
"If the Lion could speak, we would not understand him"

Albinoni - Adagio In G Minor (re-orchestrated for "If the Lion could speak...")

a binaural mix of one of the tracks from my installation "5 cnob nikola lenivetsa" in nikolay polissky's "universal mind" and VTOL's "42" at nikola lenivets, russia. these tracks are played outdoors near a forest, over a 20 speaker system and accompany recordings of inhabitants of nikola lenivets theatrically re-enacting their dreams.

Katia's Dream (binaural)

Big Sacha's Dream (binaural)

Irina's Dream (binaural)

Performance for Freediver and Computer by Robin Meier
Duration: ca. 15 minutes

The Body is a Vessel is a musical composition determined and performed by the human body. Special microphones and sensors let us listen to the physiological processes of professional freediver Elisabeth Kristoffersen.

Submerged under water, which is contained in a rowing boat on stage, Kristoffersen will hold her breath for several minutes, letting us experience the physiological transformations she undergoes whilst doing so.

The diver’s strict organization of time during preparation and diving form the basic structure of the music. The sounds of the heart, lungs, bloodflow and diaphragm are used as musical material and heard live in the hall. Using an EEG, changes of brain activity are made audible and take us even deeper into the diver’s body.

The Body is a Vessel submerges us in a baptism set to the sounds of science. protective and exposing, this work explores the perspectives of human evolution.

The Body is a Vessel was produced thanks to the support of the SuperCollider Symposium 2010, Berlin and the Haute Ecole Arc Ingénierie in St. Imier, Switzerland.

The Body is a Vessel - Excerpts

by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni for the Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris

http://robinmeier.net/?p=397

Sounds recorded with a VLF-Antenna picking up electro-magnetic activity in earth’s atmosphere and ESA’s CoRoT Satellite. This satellite picks up tiny variations of the light intensity from stars and sends that data to earth. For A Tentative Call to the Other we convert these variations – vibrations of light – into sound.

We wish to thank Eric Michel, researcher at Paris Observatory’s LESIA Lab and the CoRoT space mission – developed and operated by the French space agency CNES, with participation of ESA’s RSSD and Science Programmes, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, and Spain


A Tentative Call to the Other - Excerpts

A Tentative Call to the Other - Excerpt 2

Montreal Radio Host Liz Pieries talks about "The Body is a Vessel" on her show "monday morning after"

Radio CKUT Montreal - The Body is a Vessel

Interview with France Inter radio host Daniel Fièvet on "Ouvert la nuit" about the "Tragedy of the Commons" exhibit by Robin Meier and Ali Momeni at Palais de Tokyo, Paris - http://robinmeier.net/?p=738

Interview Radio France Inter - Tragedy of the Commons

a group of brazilian leaf-cutter (atta) ants making sounds by rubbing together certain body parts (stridulation). recorded with a contact microphone during the exhibit at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2011 - robinmeier.net/?p=738

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