through rivers streams waves all forms of liquid entanglements, ma pneuma watery love Shuyi Cao🐚 invited me to be part of the sound-worlding for her beautiful new work “begin with the end of what comes before” (2023), as continuation of our collective meditation on soft matters, deep magic, poetic ecologies and many many more.
the video becomes flowing sonic sculptures that embedded pieces of autumn mushrooms, mosses, seeds, forests, railroads, rivers, oceans and moons as i collecting sound spirits during my travel across mountains and seas in europe.
with mineral, plant, wind and water instruments, nonhuman whispering, earth bubbling, distant humming from the ends of worlds, we invite you to join us on a journey -
a journey of being inside -
a cave, a womb, a(n) (infinite) spacetime 宇宙 that begins at the end of what comes before
being inside of its breathes, its warmths, its darkness, its disposal, its transmutation, its vibrating frequencies and…
all of a sudden,
we can hear them murmuring
— they murmur through us.
full sonic narrative listen here👂🏼
This work is commissioned by Hyundai Blue Prize Art + Tech 2023 exhibition “Metamorphic Ecosphere” curated by Xiao Zong, showing at Hyundai Motor Studio Beijing, November 4, 2023–March 31, 2024.