On today’s show we will be listening to Lake Composition by Ben McCarthy and April Martin and we will also be talking to them about the piece after we listen to it.

Lake Composition is a work made for video installation but is also appropriate in a radio context. If you are interested in getting an idea of the images in the video work there is a trailer for the piece here:

Lake Composition Trailer

Lake Composition includes poetic journal-like text fragments written by Ben McCarthy. His texts reflect on the nature of love in the age of AI and the mystifying beauty of the Georgian Bay shoreline. He asks, “how is AI teaching us about who we are as desiring animals.”  The sounds in the piece include field recordings from Georgian Bay, interview fragments, and synthesized and AI generated sounds. There are sounds that derive from April Martin’s ceramic sculptures. You will hear the sculptures clanging together in the water as she casts them out to float along the shore.  

In the final 12 minutes of the show we going to turn our attention back to the Sonic Hugs project. Back in September we had an interview on Making Waves with curator Colin Black of This Sonic Life. Today we will listen to Berjalan by Claire Pannell and EMBOSOMED by Colin Black.