Soil Séance Sessions Season III 2025

Soil Séance Sessions Season III 2026 A Participatory Audio Artwork. For this Season III of the Soil Séance Sessions participants were invited to listen in and beyond the cemetery gates. To explore the underground bioacoustic dimension across a contrasting range of rural and urban landscapes including Locksbrook Cemetery, Bath; a wheat field in West Corker, Somerset; Cody Dock, Newham, London; Mark Ash Wood, New Forest, Hampshire; Museu Quinta das Cruzes and Museu História Natural, Funchal, Madera, Portugal. While this season’s work used the same methodologies and methods as Soil Séance Seasons I & II it explored a more diverse range of territories and sonic habitats, opening up a different set of ecological imaginaries. Further extending the investigation into relationships with transience, decomposition and re-composition as more-than-human activities across different sites. Soils have no clear boundary. They originate from rocks transformed over millennia by climate conditions, geological movements, biological processes, pollution and the actions of organisms, at different scales of magnitude. Soils complicate modern dualisms between nature and culture. The work involves finding experimental ways to explore ephemera: the loss and flows of materialities, including cycles of transformation across species and substances. Alighting on those things and actions that challenge simplistic divisions between what might be identified as living and non-living. The sessions give people an intimate opportunity to spend as little or as long a time as they please tuning into the micro processes transforming the soils across diverse sites. The work’s practice-based research uses experimental methods involving listening practices, (based on Pauline Oliveros), and participants own imaginary, to connect to processes and material transformations in the grounds beneath their feet. The Soil Séance Session Season III work was supported through invitation by: ‘Thinking in Circles’ OD Arts Festival: Somerset May 2025 ANIMUSIC: ‘International Meeting for Sound, Musical Instruments and Arts’, Funchal, Maderia, Portugal June 2025 ‘Digital Ecologies Symposium’, Bath Spa University July 2025 ‘Sonic Ecologies Programme’ Cody Dock, The Gasworks Dock Partnership, Newham, London Nov 2025 Grund Research Group, New Forest Nov 2025