A contemplation on biospheric homeostasis voiced in a speculative syntax. Drifting through excerpts from James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, H.P. Lovecraft, Caspar Henderson, and the H.W. Thesis of Cosmic Biology, we stumble upon fictional fragments of singing Cephalopods and their autopoetic interventions.

Contribution for Ignota’s platform The Mountain to mark the launch the of the title Gaia And Philosophy by Lynn Margulis And Dorion Sagan, published by Ignota books, 2023
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Entelechy or What the Octopus Potentially Unhears

In the summer of 1997 were heard a series of sounds, unrecognizable at first and classified as strange, even monstrous. The unfounded nature of the underwater sounds, onomatopoeically named 'Bloop', captured popular imagination and stirred up a rather fantastical speculation of their likely sources. Nearly a decade later, it was concluded that this mysterious sound spectrum was "consistent with icequakes generated by large icebergs as they crack and fracture" and dip down under with a loud and resounding 'bloop'! 

Bloop is a resurgence of sound in art and design. An entry into the immenseness of the sonic space. An unpacking of sound. A hearing, as much a listening as an investigation. An inquiry into the language and limits of the acousmatic as the medium of expression. A provocation finely crafted in the material of the heard. A conversation about sound-in-itself that flows and meanders, through place and time, listening in to the silent notes and the cadences that linger long after.

Bloop is an attempt to step away from the visual and alternatively approach the design of information, interactions, media, spaces and participation, from the auditory lens. A collective tuning into a sonic practice of composing experience in time and space. Trespassing into the digital and the physical, the focus lies in exploring the plurality and contextuality of everyday sound and sonic objects. 

While we discover the art of listening to understand, reflect and respond, we wish to design to listen in to the concerns of our time, sonifying the distinct social, political, conceptual and philosophical realms of our being.

Contrary to what it ‘sounds’, this particular instance of the bloop is a deliberation, not an erronerous utterance.

New tracks tagged #Experimental, Auditory Text