Re-Imagining Drexciya (Meat Orchestra)
2009-present
A series of collective sonic experiments through performance with meat using low life circuit bending, blasting, and building of wire electronic machines with 555's and CMOS chips integrating unconventional objects into electrical circuits. Using the circuits from various electronic detritus and building collective circuitries, participants construct psychotic synthesisers and noise machines. Using raw flesh and rotting meat as a resistor, the performance is the creation of a hybrid and mutated noise machine.
The electronic wires record the vibrations of flesh and transform the frequencies into sonic installations and meditations for somatic healing in trauma-informed practices. The presentation is inspired by the American electronic music duo James Stinson and Gerald Donald (1992) who introduced the mythical creatures of Drexciya, the underground army of mermaids of enslaved Africans who were murdered in the Atlantic Ocean.
These sonic works were presented as collective workshops and live performances with participants in London's Performance Space in Hackney in 2009-2011. The method of recording frequencies emitted from the meats, plants and objects are being used for meditations for trauma-informed work in therapy by the artist and in their performances We Have Landed, A History Of Lateness, Republik Repair, and Hydra Plantation Radio.
The electronic wires record the vibrations of flesh and transform the frequencies into sonic installations and meditations for somatic healing in trauma-informed practices. The presentation is inspired by the American electronic music duo James Stinson and Gerald Donald (1992) who introduced the mythical creatures of Drexciya, the underground army of mermaids of enslaved Africans who were murdered in the Atlantic Ocean.
These sonic works were presented as collective workshops and live performances with participants in London's Performance Space in Hackney in 2009-2011. The method of recording frequencies emitted from the meats, plants and objects are being used for meditations for trauma-informed work in therapy by the artist and in their performances We Have Landed, A History Of Lateness, Republik Repair, and Hydra Plantation Radio.