Soil Seance Listening Sessions with Michelle Atherton

2–7.30pm; 45 minute time slots

Grand Union

A square image of pink and blue frequency waves on an aubergine purple background. A single bright, electric blue wave line shoots horizontally across the centre of the image. Below this blue line, there are many bright pink waves and lines, which increase in intensity towards the bottom of the image.

What is it like to commune with the ground? To turn your senses downwards – using experimental and electrical devices as portals to the underworld?

For Grand Union’s September First Friday you can sign up for a one-to-one session, to spend as short or as long a time as you please, attempting to hear the subsonic frequencies in the earth. This is an offer to transduce, turning one form of energy into another by way of wires, minerals (extracted), amplification and vibratory matter. To see if we can tune into the micro sounds communicating with themselves beyond human perception and the everyday noises of the city.

Soils are and hold mutable spaces, constantly shifting and changing over time. They have a genesis and a lifespan. They originate from rocks transformed over millennia by climate conditions, geological movements, biological processes, and the actions of organisms, at all scales. Soils are the product of highly complex relationships. They are both living and non-living.

This is a free event but booking via Eventbrite is essential. The sessions are designed to be one-to-one with Michelle Atherton, but please get in touch if you’d prefer to book as a pair.

Accessibility

This event will take place entirely outside and will involve walking short distances across uneven ground. The event relies on listening to minute sounds, and there may be no sounds at all. Please get in touch via email at info@grand-union.org.uk for more detailed access information or to have a chat. about access requirements.

Venue

Grand Union

19 Minerva Works
Fazeley Street
B5 5RS