Interspecies Meditations

Interspecies Meditations: imaginative meditations on belonging to a living world Interspecies Meditations is a monthly performance series exploring intimacy between humans and the more-than-human world through sound and imaginative listening practices. Each installment immerses audiences into a different realm — forests, fields, fungi and the underground, darkness, migration — through deep listening, song, guided meditation, and sound made in collaboration with living organisms via biosonification. Our invitation: learn to find belonging in both the body and the world by attuning and listening to other species. Inspired by the body's capacity for metamorphosis, each session follows an arc of arrival, dissolution, and re-formation. Audiences are invited not to observe but to practice an interspecies transformation: imagining their own becoming, listening to what the world is saying, and discovering that the boundaries we call skin are more porous than we think. Interspecies Meditations is created by Willow Gatewood and Audax M. Gawler, with contributing artists, and is hosted at Reforesters Laboratory, Brooklyn NY. Note on Biosonification: Biosonification involves turning biological processes within organisms into music or sound. Electrodes and a midi-data biosonification device convert changes in micro-conductivity in plants and fungi to midi notes, which "play" digital instruments.