With an interest in using ecological sound and composition to facilitate a reconsideration of
our surroundings, Action Pyramid’s practice examines the relationship between humans and the nonhuman. Using an array of recording techniques, he explores and re-interprets seemingly unnoticed sound-worlds and sonic details that often exist all around us. Action Pyramid’s compositions and spatialised sound pieces look to highlight these unheard phenomena, offering up alternative perspectives on our perceptions of scale, hierarchical bias and the interconnectedness of living things.
"The exhibition is completed by an audio piece by Action Pyramid, which interprets the sounds of photosynthesis by aquatic plants. Raw recordings are followed by a set of
variations on the plants’ theme, using different processing methods to interpret the sonic data. The piece highlights the essential unknowability of the sounds, and yet at the same
time emphasises the importance of such empathetic interspecies acts of listening. Many of the aquatic plants recorded by Action Pyramid, such as water lilies, inhabit a liminal world in which they are both rooted in the mud and free to float across the surface of the water, where they photosynthesize in the air. Taken both as living beings in their own right and as a metaphor for human experience, they defy the reductive idea that finding a sense of belonging on earth is to be static or unchanging."
[Excerpt from Meeting Points Within This Elemental Mesh, An Essay by Anna Souter]