An organism awakes under the earth, its body creaks into movement and sound emerges from the soil. It struggles to stand and to walk, but it is drawn to the sun. It drinks in the feeling of being alive. But its life is short. It must return to the soil. Though it feels so good to breathe.

This performance was created in response to James Dolan's TERRAIN installation at Battersea Arts Centre, as part of TERRAIN: PULSE. Using experimental vocal techniques, live vocal processing and noise-informed sound design, this performance was a live improvisation that built a sonic and narrative landscape.

Throughout the performance, Edie’s voice was captured by a contact microphone and processed through multiple streams of granular delays. Their voice was only amplified through these effects, allowing their natural voice to be located directionally and acoustically in the room, before evolving outwards further into the space. In response to the space, and Edie’s performance, Fraser’s sound design layered granular textures of various materials with both software and hardware synthesisers.