Composed by the sound artist William Russell, founder of the pioneering spatial sound collective Monom, “Human Nature Machine” is an embodied listening experience that explores our relationship with the organic and inorganic world around us.
Through the improvised and spatialized interplay of piano and voice with synthetic sounds that evoke the sonic dynamics of natural phenomena and weather patterns, the listening experience brings to life the sounds of endangered and extinct species and biomes. Functioning as a conversation between the space and the sonic phenomena that occur within it, the work places the listener in an augmented sonic reality, a space for reflection on human nature, our place in the world and our collective future.
Adapted for the 360-degree spatial sound system embedded into the inner room of the Reethaus, the listening experience kicks off our “Spatial Futures” series, curated by Monom.
