{"id":12637,"date":"2023-11-09T13:24:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T13:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=12637"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:21:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T12:21:22","slug":"soil-seance-sessions-season-1-atherton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/soil-seance-sessions-season-1-atherton\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil S\u00e9ance Sessions: Season 1 – Update from Michelle Atherton"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Soil S\u00e9ance Sessions by Michelle Atherton<\/a> has just completed its first season.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Sessions<\/em>\u00a0invite individuals to spend time listening to the soil at a site of their choosing. To turn their auditory perception downwards, by using an acoustic device as a portal to the underworld. An offer to transduce, to turn one form of energy into another by way of wires, minerals (extracted) and vibratory matter.<\/p>\n

Soils hold a mutable space, constantly shifting and changing over time. They have a genesis and a lifespan. Commentators agree that soils have no clear boundary.<\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>

Images clockwise from top left: 1- Dr. Jana\u00a0Saltatory motion by myelinated neurons\u00a02016<\/a>, 2 & 3 – Soil S\u00e9ance Seasons ISA Science, 2023; 4 \u2013 Sylvia Faustenhammer Soil S\u00e9ance Sessions ISAScience 2023.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

To date the sessions have involved a diverse range of people and community groups across seven London Boroughs. Michelle was also selected to run the listening sessions as part of\u00a0ISAScience Conference:\u00a0Sonic Ties: Rethinking Communities & Collectives<\/em>\u00a0ISA Science, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria.<\/a><\/p>\n

This work forms part of the project\u00a0Ecstatic Rot<\/em>\u00a0supported by the Arts Council England and Early Career Research and Innovation Fellowship 2022-23. The research investigating our relationships with transience, decomposition and re-composition as more-than-human activities. The work involves finding experimental ways to explore ephemera: the loss and flows of materialities, including cycles of transformation across species and substances. Alighting on those things and actions that challenge simplistic divisions between what might be identified as living and non-living.<\/p>\n

Header image credit:<\/strong> Sylvia Faustenhammer – Soil S\u00e9ance Sessions – ISAScience 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Soil S\u00e9ance Sessions by Michelle Atherton has just completed its first season. The\u00a0Sessions\u00a0invite individuals to spend time listening to the soil at a site of their choosing. To turn their auditory perception downwards, by using an acoustic device as a portal to the underworld. 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