Elemental encounters is a research-based sound performance, following the concept of Circuits of Extended Phenotype: fragile and sensitive, “soft” electronic instruments which entangle both human and non-human influences upon the emergence of sound. In this performance, Adomas Palekas focuses on sounding through liquids – liquids that activate the oscillations and thus invite environment, both biotic and abiotic, to act upon the sonic vitality. Temperature, gravity, humidity, chemical species and even microbial life and its residues act together in the composition of sound.
Adomas Palekas is a sound and bio artist, composer, and instrument builder based in Vilnius, exploring the intersection of the non-human and art. His research focuses on Circuits of Extended Phenotype, using self-made instruments and interfaces to let microbial, chemical, and (in)organic processes shape sound. His approach combines instrument design, microbial research, site-specific listening, field recordings, sonification, and electroacoustic composition.
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