Date: 3rd September Music Tech Fest Reaktorhallen 1 Stockholm More info on Music Tech Fest website Performance of The Matter of the Soul | Phase 1 and concentration, with live video from the amazing Servando Barreiro. I will play water live using hacked pH and conductivity meters, an acid crystal […]
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The Matter of the Soul installation at Polar Encounters, Bonhams
The Matter of the Soul sono-sculptural new media installation as part of Polar Encounters by Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute 30th July 2018 – 17th August 2018 Location: Bonhams Art Gallery 101 New Bond Street London, W1 More about The Matter of the Soul Music and Artworks available […]
Read MorePremière: Symphony | The Matter of the Soul at Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North
Performance: Symphony | The Matter of the Soul 23rd October 2018 Howard Assembly Rooms, Opera North, Leeds This performance is the première of the symphony from Arctic empathy artwork The Matter of the Soul. It will include live improvisation using both traditional and unconventional instruments, and will include sculptural elements […]
Read MoreCoral, 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
Read MoreKunst 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, […]
Read MoreFirst 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 […]
Read MorePremière: 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 […]
Read MoreVideo: Interview at Opera North alongside George Monbiot by University of Leeds
Last night I had the honour to introduce George Monbiot’s Liberty Lecture at Opera North in Leeds, UK. Ahead of his lecture, George and I joined Simon Moore from the University of Leeds to discuss our work for environmental and sociopolitical change. Here we are talking about the importance of […]
Read MoreExploring 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 […]
Read MoreHardware 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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