Meat ants build large nests underground in sandy gravels on the floodplain, mounded to keep them dry. A single nest can contain as many as 64,000 ants – territorial, aggressive ants who carve paths and trails underground and across the floodplain. They don’t take kindly to a capsule microphone being threaded down the nest, attacking it with their powerful jaws.

Entered in the 2020 Sound of the Year Awards (Worst Sound category for a sound that should never have been made or that should have been designed better) - https://www.soundoftheyearawards.com

Recorded Macquarie Marshes, October 2020 as part of the Pulse of the Wetland/ Mosses + Marshes project - https://eco-pulse.art

Pulse of the Wetland: Meat Ant Attack

off the books

I'm Sorry

The Fumigation of La Luna is a poem by Albert Pellicer. It is a response to the events of fumigation with Glyphosate in the territory of indigenous people Kogui in La Sierra de Santa Marta Colombia. This chemical poisoned the land, the air, and threatened the health of the indigenous population. The fumigation targeted 'coca' plantations, sacred plant for the Kogui's traditions and health.  Kogui culture is one of the most sophisticated and peaceful precolombian cultures. Here you can read an article of this atrocity made on the name of the war on drugs. The war on drugs should be focus on the consume of cocaine by people in developed countries. It is a drug to act faster, produce faster, keep with the fast speed of life, keep running capitalism. More about the story here: http://www.rense.com/general67/kogi.htm

The Fumigation of La Luna - 2006

Sphyrelaton is a term used for a type of archaic Greek bronze votive statues of considerable size. This monolithic sound work is an effort to embody this structure sonically.

Madeline Darby / djdrummernk - Sphyrelaton

Audio tracks from Hildegard Westerkamp's keynote talk at Invisible Places 
April 8, 2017, S. Miguel, Azores

Schonberg/Labverde: Multispecies

Lisa Ann Schonberg

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