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Into the Incubator Soil

by Matt Nish-Lapidus

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Into the Incubator Soil (Live at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington November 6 2021) 23:16
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This is a recording of a live performance given as part of the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington's "Public Space" program. I was invited by Sahar Te to compose and perform a new sound piece in response to her mushroom incubator installation. The installation was a month long community mushroom garden, where people were invited to propagate, incubate, and harvest oyster mushrooms in the gallery.

This sound work responds to the nature of the incubator project—community, composting, growth, and resonance. Over the course of the exhibition I recorded sounds in and around the incubator and gallery space, an informal and heterogeneous archive of activity and silence. Using this raw material as "compost" I created a software instrument that recombines, mulches, and resonates with the sounds, turning them into something new and emergent.

The performance captured in this recording is one moment in time. It is a unique expression of the sounds of this space, processed into new life. The software instrument is written in SuperCollider and controlled from a bank of 16 midi faders and 8 knobs, some controlling speed, length, and position of the field recordings and the others controlling a bank of tuned resonators.

The title of the piece is derived from Belinda Kwan's essay accompanying the exhibition.

For more about this project please see the links below:

www.vac.ca/sahar-te

saharte.com#/incubator/

And an accompanying publication by Belinda Kwan:

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released January 27, 2022

Recorded live at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington on November 6, 2021.

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Matt Nish-Lapidus Toronto, Ontario

Software, sounds, and texts probing the myth that computers need to be useful rather than beautiful.

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