Coral, water and internet / identity on elements, CoLaboRadio

Tuesday 26th June 20:00 and 22:00, online and 88,4 MHz in Berlin, 90,7 MHz in Potsdam Artists Kat Austen and Kirsty Kross will join Kate Donovan on elements,  to discuss our relationship with the marine environment and how the internet changes identity. Tune in to CoLaboRadio elements

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Kunst vs Climate Change – lecture performance at Fusion Festival

Thursday 28th June 21:30 ConTent, Fusion Festival, Germany Can we learn to love others, who may not be human, enough to live in synchronicity together? Kat Austen will elaborate on multi-sensory ways of creating emotional connections with other entities in the environment. Kat will draw on her work in embodied, […]

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First remix: Conductivity samples used by London composer

[soundcloud url=“https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/442727505″ params=“color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true“ width=“100%“ height=“166″ iframe=“true“ /] London-based composer John Morrison has used the conductivity meter sound recordings from The Matter of the Soul, available on Github under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license, as inspiration for his beautiful piece The Realities We Play. You can hear the characteristic rise and fall of […]

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Première: The Matter of the Soul | Concentration

[soundcloud url=“https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/416981241″ params=“color=#ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true“ width=“100%“ height=“600″ iframe=“true“ /] Performance at Spektrum, Berlin on Saturday 3rd March 2018 During Alien Organs, part of the Sonic Vibrations series, curated by Alfredo Ciannameo Oceans are drastically changing. Seawater is less salty, and is becoming more acidic. The crisis in our seas is intrinsically linked […]

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Exploring climate change with sound and touch

Fantastic news: this month I’m starting a new position as one of the University of Leeds‘ Cultural Institute’s Cultural Fellows, alongside my new colleagues Dave Lynch and Christophe de Bezenac. Starting this month, I’ll be working with researchers and students at the University to further my project The Matter of […]

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Hardware hacking for sonifying scientific measurements of water

[vimeo 231201804 w=640 h=361] Hacking the Mettler Toledo Delta 320 pH meter at Mono Shop Berlin – circuit bending the digital display from Kat Austen on Vimeo. The first hack was to sonify the digital display of the Mettler Toledo Delta 320 pH Meter  – thanks to Simon Schäfer at […]

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This fractionation of our being | Arctic Notes 2 & 3

I’m eager to get out on the ice – I’m so obsessed with this project and I’ve been taking every opportunity to make recordings however I can and to play with my equipment, work on concepts for the form, and interview everyone I can speak to. I’ve so far had […]

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