Bio-17 by Faery published on 2022-07-27T11:00:04Z This hybrid mix formed part of a recent research project exploring plant language and speculative sonic fictions :) About the mix: Plants have inhabited Earth for more than four-hundred-and-fifty million years, while humans have called this planet home for little more than seven million. Plants, with their collectively sustaining outlook, drawn from a wealth of ancestral knowledge - stored in winding, subterranean mycorrhizal networks - travel through time, but not in the linear sense: they are at once past, present and (thanks to their efficient, predictive capabilities) future. They are a reminder of, and a steady companion to, Earth’s long lifecycle. While their methods of communication may not be as visibly and sonically obvious as those of our own and our animal companions, plants have a fascinatingly plural language system - a complex, decentralised, multi-player network that Bio-17 attempts to sonify. Bio-17, a name owing its form to Samuel Delany’s 1966 sci-fi novel, Babel-17 - a novel concerning interplanetary translation - is a collaborative, interspecies linguistic study. Through a spectrum of original and gathered, human and plant-made sounds - including arboreal field recordings, vocal samples, and processed biorhythmic data, all interwoven with tracks by other artists - I have explored the ways in which vegetal language systems might be decoded into music - using the medium's spatio-sensory capacities, and widely interpretable nature, to reflect a multiplicity of voices communicating within an interconnected whole. Tracklist: Bio-17 - A Distant Stir Szarnyas Szerval - I’m all alone here Bio-17 - Nightfall Howes - Nine Acre Dub Gonçalo F. Cardoso - Danum Valley & Canopy Walks Polygonia - Gaping Void Bio-17 - Shadowed Voices Clearlight - Rain Falls Bio-17 - Plant Aubade Part 1 Vedis - June 6AM Bio-17 - Plant Aubade Part 2 Bio-17 - Arboreal Chant 1 Refracted - Enter The Jungle Bio-17 - Arboreal Drone 1 Halos - Conexión Universal Bio-17 - Arboreal Drone 2 Sunwald - Pressad Gil.Barte - A.P.1 Bio-17 - Arboreal Chant 3 Liang Yiyuan - Hallucinogen of Imagined Bodhi-III Blòt Heathen - Hunting Milena Kriegs - Human Experience (Outro) Bio-17 - Nightfall CTAFAD - Land of Sadness Genre Ambient Comment by Christian Coiffure super sick work, loved this 2023-02-01T13:45:59Z Comment by SMOCE I hear you. 2022-11-19T03:41:55Z Comment by Jeffa beautiful <3 2022-11-02T21:02:35Z Comment by Catalina Hypnotized 🫴🌱🕊 2022-08-09T16:34:32Z Comment by Psalixera wowww💚 2022-08-06T12:33:08Z Comment by Eight Fold Way Love this mix Freya!!! 2022-08-05T08:51:37Z Comment by Night Garden 🍃🌱🍃 2022-08-04T10:36:38Z Comment by ANNX 💚 2022-08-04T06:47:54Z Comment by ANNX 💚 2022-08-04T06:24:21Z