Artist researchers Undine Sellbach & Stephen Loo take biologist Jacob von Uexküll’s musical terms describing organisms and their environments from A Theory of Meaning (1940), to speculate on insect symphonies that are discordant, faint and partial tunings, unrecognisable to a human ear.

Artist and writer Tessa Laird responds to philosopher Thomas Nagel who once asked, “What is it like to be a bat?” His point was that as human beings, we will never know. Tessa will be joined by jumbo bonk musician James Grant (aka Abstract Mutation).

Lynn Mowson and Bruce Mowson (mOwson+M0wson) will publicly animate ‘some inanimate lumps’.

Language artist Catherine Clover and musical explorer Peter Knight collaborate around the political, musical and philosophical complexities of a field recording made in the songbird aviary at Jurong Bird Park in Singapore.

Melissa Deerson speaks for an eel, as an eel speaks for her.

Fernando do Campo will be sharing the recently found archive of 1960′s correspondence between Barnett Newman and the HSSH (House Sparrow Society for Humans). This ubiquitous brown bird may be almost interchangeable with humans’ history, but there are still some things that ‘we’ take for granted…

In partnership with West Space, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Naturestrip, Australian Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Melbourne.