VP - COSMOSIS VP

Sound is an ecology—a living organism that hatches, breathes, decays & evolves. In COSMOSIS, I sought to build sonic imagined landscapes—audible biomes that could belong to an Earth yet to come or a world beyond our own. This project seeks to listen beyond musical registers, hoping to bring to the surface the unheard & seemingly invisible, finding communion with voices often ignored: the hum of fungi stretching through soil, the exhalation of forests, the echoing calls of creatures who have shaped our Earth alongside us, some far longer than us.

Over the past decade, I have gathered a library of field recordings. I like to think of this as a living archive of our planet’s acoustics, foraged from my expeditions as an archaeoacoustics & bioacoustics researcher. This archive includes recordings from each biome that is reimagined in the album. They span early summer mornings in the English woodlands, the ambience of prehistoric caves in Catalonia, contact mic-ing tree roots in humid jungles, eucalyptus forests in tempest on Gadigal & Darug country & underwater recordings of the Mediterranean Sea. Through bioacoustics, I have been granted access to the voices of canids, gibbons, dolphins, birds, felines & more—an evolutionary lexicon of sound. These recordings are not merely samples; they became the raw materials from which this album is sculpted.

Technology allowed me to extend these more familiar natural voices into unfamiliar terrains. The howl of a wolf is stretched, becoming a haunting drone. The friction of a moth’s wings turned percussive, reshaped into immersive rhythmic pulses. The electrical current of mycelium sonified into an ethereal choral arrangement. Each track carries within it an essence of what is known & what is earthly, but I hope, it transforms into something beyond recognition—a liminal space between the real & the imagined.

This album is a map of possible futures, a place where sonic landscapes become speculative ecologies.