Rock/Drop

Rock/Drop continues the concern with developing an alternative, non-representational and non-pictorial understandings of landscape to re-think our multifaceted relationship to nature. It seeks to move away from humancentric perspectives and instead seeks to establish new relationships as metaphor for our complex interdependent entanglements of a humankind, nature, technology continuum of interrelated power structures.

In a continuing reference to the increase of rainfall due to climate change it continues to use the recordings gathered in the mouth of a disused mine in the Lake District during heavy rainfall as a starting point. These recordings are channelled through Atau Tanaka’s wrist bands that sense muscle tension through an electromyogram signal and translate complex organic data into sound. Rock/Drop was recorded in a live performative interaction. The rocks simulated in three dimensions are directly responding to live sounds.