MMeets MULCH
Image by Lichen Kelp
Join us at MPavilion for an enhanced picnic of immersive, biocentric live art gently unfolding across the afternoon.
Expect performances from artist gardeners, live music, talks and walking tours that give detailed background of the Queen Victoria Gardens.
Relax, sit back and hear about the garden in all its forms, including it’s non-human inhabitants.
MULCH is growing into an ongoing project where entangled plant/human relationships are centered through collaborations between artists, gardeners, plants and pollinators.
Featuring:
Sara Retallick
Friendly Society
Scott Baker
Alex Last
Gregory Lorenzutti
Carolyn/Fia Fiell
April 2022 event listing here
Image by Sara Retallick
“Common Phrases” is a new work developed for MULCH by Alex Last, which explores the vocal complexity of the Common Myna. For this project Alex has combed through hours of Myna call-streams and isoalted 44 individually unique sounds…
…These acoustic units have then been paired with the 44 phenomes of English and packaged into a text-to-speech app with the help of Xavier Burrow .
You can try the app here
For his performance lecture for MULCH, Alex explained the design process in detail while demonstrating the translational capabilities and defincies inherent to the project.
Frank Cecconi