Recordings

FUTURE ARTEFACTS FM (2022)

BIOTURBATION;
Or, The Humiliation of HuMan by WRMS

Commissioned by Niamh Schmidtke and Nina Davies for their Arts Council funded project Future Artefacts FM, Bioturbation; Or, The Humiliation of Human by WRMS is a thirteen minute sound work. Digging through layers of jazz, poetry, news reports and voice, worms are the central character, an essential creature in the process of making soil, and sustaining life on earth.
Through the bodily movements of the worms, moving the strata of soil and remaking nutritional gradients, their acts of worldbuilding become a tangible perspective from which to speculate new narratives on waste, extraction and being with the planet.
In the subsequent conversation, we together explore how to become more worm-like, both as a necessary force in ecology, and as a metaphor for how we, as humans, metabolise life; how process and product, eating and excreting, could exist within other beings.