pheobe riley law

moss listening 
(2023)

collaboration with Jez riley French

Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterday - February 2024
Matsudo Science Art Festival, Japan - October 2023

sugars,
starch light

Blankets, oceanic layers across place. Symbiotic colonisations, sonically intense, revealing their vast, shifting micro-environments.

Moss Listening features recordings (traces) of the inner sounds of common moss species, the soil horizons they maintain and myhychorizal shifts, recorded with self-built microphones. Organ tones mirror systems of circulation and flow, alongside performative objects and touch referencing climate stress and re-connection.

8 + 2 channel diffusion, performative objects, moss

multi-channel sound work, with performative objects / video, based on mutual listening to moss & on-going research.

images from performance at Sonic Acts Biennial 2024;

(photos by Pieter Kers)