… and then we will see if we can be friends
The albums “Friendly (Aliens)”, “L.A.R.S”, “Firled Recordings” and “Soundforms” sonically portray the locations we visited as friendly.soundforms. They also document how we engaged with resident organism(s), collected field recordings, and contributed to the soundscape with Systems∿Encounter. In studio sessions, the collected materials were reworked into sound collages and soundscape compositions, which were then again taken … Continue reading soundforms.albums
This is us as a band at noisy rooms at RAW. In our studio we spent a day listening back to recordings of our previous engagement with floating – and playing with them with Systems∿Encounter. After free improvisations (solo and in groups) we also played some tasks and ended with a fast round of rotating … Continue reading in the studio: noisy.organisms @ noisy (= organism)
After two studio days, the artists of friendly soundforms spent two intense days at and with the floating organism(s). We listened to our surroundings and identified all kinds of organisms and their niches (birds, waters, humans, bees, reeds, Neuköllner Oper, to name a few), as well as made and recorded sounds we introduced into the … Continue reading in the field: floating and listening, playing and recording
friendly soundforms spent two days in the studio at Pirate.com listening to our recordings and using them as a basis for our electronic sound creation. While most of the days were spent with intense listening and sound performances, we also created scores to perform by and developed strategies on how to play together.
We sat and listened for one minute. It was a very short minute. So we sat and listened for two more. We explored ways of sound-walking in teams and played live sound pieces for each other. One time, everyone fell asleep. We engaged with the remains of a steel sculpture: listening to the world through … Continue reading in the field: Klang-Börse pt.2
Today was the first day that we worked together as Friendly.Soundforms: Frank Schulz, Ismail Arslantürk, Katharina Hauke, Magdalena Oelmüller, Till Bovermann. Tomorrow Heidi Bruck will join us, too. Together we engaged in listening to the soundscapes of the Zur Alten Börse 41 workshop area – first through our ears and bodies only, and later with … Continue reading in the field: Klang-Börse pt.1
Today, we visited Floating University to investigate if we could have part of our investigations into places as organisms there. We were warmly welcomed by Teresa, a spokesperson for the floating e.V. and had a little walk around the area. It is quite an intense place full of both history and non-human life: intruiging for … Continue reading scouting: floating
Today, we went to Thikwa-Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst to meet nine of their resident artists and present our upcoming project friendly soundforms to them and ask, if they want to take part in it. We were greeted by a wonderfully warm and embracing atmosphere full of curiosity and patience. It was an exciting day for … Continue reading preparation: getting to know our project partners
In Janurary 2020, friendly.organisms were invited to be part of strange things. thin layers of paradise lost by friendly.organisms The group exhibition was accompanied by film screenings and concert programs in the evening. Taking place in Betonhalle of silent green Kulturquartier, it featured recent audio-visual works of UdK students, alumni and affiliated artists. With thin … Continue reading thin layers of paradise lost
The hut at Saarijärvi is divided into an open and a reservable part.
A large boulder (possibly), completely overgrown by moss, dwarf birch, and many other plants. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
A body of water near a riverbed and a smaller hill next to the slopes of Saana. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
A tree trunk in the birch forest from a long-gone tree. Serving as structural and nutritional basis for new life. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
Today is the 4th day of my residency in Kilpisjärvi. I spend a lot of time walking on the fells and “tunturi” (a mountain type typical for Samiland). I searched for microworlds. Until now, I found more than 10. Depending on how much time I had left of the day, I documented them more or … Continue reading First encounters
A human-made ditch in the north face of Pikku-Malla, originally intended as shelter for human soldiers during the Winter war, now host to a small puddle and several plants.
A massive boulder with a tiny pond next to it, hosting a multitude of plants, combining several microclimates. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
A rock covered with plants. A looner, resting below the tree-line at Saana.
A couple of rock covered with plants, resting below the tree-line at Saana.
Friendly neighbours stretching their leafs, waiting for the snow to cover them and being poured over by the water of the fall next door. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
According to a sign next to it, this used to be Nilppa Tornensis’ summer lean-on around 1920 and 1950. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
A mixture between creek and pond with an enourmous amount of moss and lots of other inhabitants. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw An ambience recording at Microworld 2.3. microworlds by LFSaw A track based on Microword 2.3.
A hand-size faeces with sprouting mushrooms.
A small rock completely covered with plants. microworlds (ambiences) by LFSaw
An island with a tree. Inaccessible without a boat, and with a boat, it is forbidden to access since it is part of the Malla nature reserve.
Friendly Organisms had the chance to take part in the 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science 2019 in Riga/Latvia. During 4 days of many talks, discussions and art interventions, we did a lecture performance around our experience at Eden Project. Lecture Performance We arranged spoken texts, photos and field recordings into a 20-minute performance based … Continue reading RIXC — un/green conference
Whom will I find? Rehearsing and background research for in-the-field sonic interventions. reading Salonen: Stories told by stones Greye, Bovermann: Instrumentality in Sonic Wild{er}ness, in Musical Instruments in the 21st century — Identities, Configurations, Practices. Beloff, Berger, Haapoja (eds.): Fieldnotes Arlander: Performing landscape Oelschlaeger: The idea of wilderness livecoding setup Photos taken at the Bioart … Continue reading Preparations
On September the 27th, 2016, seven people from different countries and with different backgrounds made their way to the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station, invited for an Ars Bioarctica residency. In 2019, I turned my recordings from a day near lake Saarijärvi into a 34min piece that is now part of the microworlds album. microworlds by LFSaw … Continue reading Saarijärvi
This will be my 4th time in the Kilpisjärvi area. It is a special place that, since I had the privilege of spending time there for the first time in 2013, I am regularly coming back to it in my thoughts and dreams. At first, Kilpisjärvi seems to be scarce in many respects; With 200km … Continue reading setting the context
Microworlds are semi-isolated habitats and parallel worlds. Microworlds are areas of diversity. Microworlds both host, and are themselves, organisms. In microworlds, boundaries between individuals blur. Narratives can be found by diving into them. Microworlds contain stories around non-human societies that can be uncovered and recorded.
With Katharina Hauke, Till Bovermann, Hannes Hoelzl, Alberto de Campo, and Georgy Bagdasarov.
We went through all our recordings and creations and set up a sound map you can explore from within Eden Project.
First there is nothing.Wait. We see nothing.
So many accompanied us on our journey. We are thankful to have met each and every one of them. For their help and perspectives on the world, for spending time with us, for being the way they are.
And soldering and testing and listening to some hard core noise.
The Eden organism relies on 400 (winter) and 700 (summer) organelles with duties such as facilitating awareness and communication, growth, service, or immune system.
Some impressions of our building the new node…
We went on a field trip with the wonderful Anthony Bryant Stephen Polglase (and about 20 other people) to get an idea on the mining history of Cornwall.
We were asked to help out with a contribution to the Eden Project family arts weekend today. We thought of a guided tour in the form of an exploration, suitable for kids. We got it wrong somehow.
Today we got an introduction by Kevin the engineer on the pumping systems that prevent Eden from flooding. This insight fundamentally changed our view on the Eden Project plus it was a so interesting that we came back to record some of the pumps.
pumps pumping, a robin singing
Behind the Core building lie the Spiral Gardens and behind these the Japanese Gardens of Eden. During our afternoon there it was more or less dry and there were neither wind nor sun.We set up the fielding nodes between moss, blackberries, ferns and ants where they could sense the (changes in) temperature, humidity/conductivity, light of … Continue reading the japanese gardens of eden
Don’t take anything we say for a fact. In fact, if you hear us say a thing about anything, my advice would be to think of it most differently.
In the wetlands we recorded a gang of birds…
In the morning… We explored two of the many off-site areas of Eden Project. As advised by the horticulturist Kev, we walked from Vounder Barn towards the Pineapple parking lot.
The United Fruit Company was an American corporation that traded in tropical fruit (primarily bananas), grown on Central and South American plantations, and sold in the United States and Europe.
We visited Amber and Dave of FoAM Kernow in their studio. Apart from being the facilitators of our residency at Eden Project, “FoAM is a network of transdisciplinary labs at the intersection of art, science, nature and everyday life.”
Hi Till and Katharina. Please find attached .CSV files for the outside data, and WTB biome. Data is from midnight 07th September 2018 to midnight 08th September 2018 at 8 minute intervals.Hope this helps. Cheers,Michael
An acoustic recapitulation of our expedition behind and inside the mediterranean zone of Eden Project. Sonically poking through the various layers of hexagonal double-pillows that absorb approximately 50 percent of sunlight yet protect the mediterranean plants from the temperate climate (Cfb) of Cornwall.
An electromagnetic listening walk.
We had plans to explore the far outskirts of Eden Project and ended up discovering the area just behind the core building. The day was sunny, beautiful and very windy.
In six days we will have met Adam.I will make a note in my book: Today we learned about bananas.
We are overwhelmed by the sheer sensory overflow of day one at Eden. It is (expectedly) difficult to even only get a hint of the function and inner workings of an organisms as Eden Project just by glancing over parts of its behaviour.
We drove through a maze of hedges and soil until we reached the brightly lit portal declared as the back entrance of a garden called Eden.
Calm sea and an hour or two between Calais and Dover…
To get an idea of the feeling of being in Eden Project, especially the artificial biomes, we went to the Berlin Botanical Garden and its (very different) glass houses.
Preparations for the Eden Project residency. We went to Jagen 9 at the Dahme shore with various tools. It was a lovely day and we spend time recording, discussing and playing along with birds, planes, and boats. Have a listen at some of our recordings:
An artificial plant of the wind plant variety. As an inhabitant of the boreal forest and meadows, Maaum Siilium exhibits solid conductive roots and delicate weed-like stems with swinging fruiting bodies. The plant is sensitive to both aerial flow and soil conditions which it translates into alterations of its sonic behaviour. Maaum Siilium can be found in the Gulf of … Continue reading Anemos Sonore Maaum Siilium