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Worldings
Complementarities
Play-Ground
Life(s) of Webs
Live(s) on Air
Tomás Saraceno in collaboration: Web(s) of Life
Entangled Air
Oceans of Air
Silent Autumn
Drift: A cosmic web of thermodynamic rhythms
Aerocene: Free the Air. “Orbit-s” For a Post-Fossil Fuel Era
Cloud Cities: du sol au soleil
Particular Matter(s)
Cloud Cities Barcelona
Matter(s) for Conversation and Action
Inter + Play 2
From Arachnophobia to Arachnophilia
we do not all breathe the same air
Ha Chi Ki
AnarcoAracnoAnacroArcano
Nggamdu.org
Lignes de possibles: Arachnophilia with Tomás Saraceno at the Festival La Manufacture d’idées
Du sol au soleil
Webs of Life
Museo Aero Solar: for an Aerocene era
Movement
How to hear the universe in a spider/web: A live concert for/by invertebrate rights
Interspecies Conversations
Avec qui venez-vous? Vinciane Despret in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
Prototype of Maratus volans (peacock spider), Web of Life (2020) | for a real Augmented Reality
Radio Galena
The Art of Noticing – Louisiana Channel Interviews Tomás Saraceno
Free the Air: Aerocene – Tomás Saraceno holds keynote speech at Herald Design Forum
Up Close: Tomás Saraceno in conversation with Harriet A. Washington
Songs for the Air
Moving Atmospheres
Event Horizon
Aria
Fly with Aerocene Pacha
Invertebrate Rights for “Down to Earth”
Tomás Saraceno
Spider/Web Pavilion 7
Arachnomancy Cards
Acqua Alta: en Clave de Sol
On the Disappearance of Clouds
Tomás Saraceno. Aria at Cinema Odeon
Sundial for Spatial Echoes
2-Dimensional Webs Archive/Maps and Traces
More-than-humans
Tomás Saraceno at the Venice Biennale 2019
Arachnophilia Community Meeting with MIT Professor Markus J Buehler
Beyond the Cradle 2019: Space and the Arts
Engadin Art Talks: Grace and Gravity
Tomás Saraceno
How to entangle the universe in a spider/web?
Printed Matter(s)
Webs of At-tent(s)ion
Art Basel Miami – Albedo | Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Tomás Saraceno
ON AIR
Aerographies
The Politics of Solar Rhythms: Cosmic Levitation
Living at the bottom of the ocean of air
Sounding the Air
“ON AIR live with…”
Spider/Web Oracle Readings Program
Algo-r(h)i(y)thms
Passages of Time
Particular Matter(s) Jam Session
Solar Rhythms
ALBEDO
A Thermodynamic Imaginary
How to Entangle the Universe in a Spider Web
Hybrid Webs
Gravitational Waves
Silent Autumn
Entangled Orbits
Our Interplanetary Bodies
Aerosolar Journeys
Stillness in Motion — Cloud Cities
163,000 Light Years
Tomás Saraceno’s Cloud Cities and Solar Balloon Travel – Interview with The Creators Project
Cosmic Jive: The Spider Sessions
Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions
Solar Bell
In Orbit
Ring Bell — Solar Orchestra and the Wind Structures
Moving Beyond Materiality – MIT Visiting Artist Tomás Saraceno
On the Roof: Cloud City
On Space Time Foam
Cloud Cities
14 Billions (Working Title)
Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web
Observatory, Air-Port-City
Poetic Cosmos of the Breath
Flying Garden/Air-Port-City
Arachnids and Anthropos, an interspecies encounter mediated by the playful modality of sound. Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions allows for exploration of the sophisticated vibrational communication of arachnids, expanding communicative possibilities into the low-frequency spectrum and inspiring a more complex understanding of the more-than-human means of perceiving and existing.
Exploring the arachnid’s sophisticated mode of communication through vibrations, several instruments were developed to amplify the vibrations of spiders, rendering them audible to other species. These instruments, ranging from strings to percussion and Aeolic, were also incorporated by musicians into their live performances. The audio publishing project brings together jam sessions between arachnids and Anthropos performed live in various locations. Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions expands the possibility of communication into the low-frequency spectrum. Predicated on playfulness and creativity, this project instigates a more complex understanding of the animal world.
SPIDER JAM SESSION WITH SILVIA BOLOGNESI, MILAN (IT)
On the occasion of Tomás Saraceno’s the Weaving The Cosmos hosted by Bulgari at Ulrico Hoepli’s Planetarium during the 2019 Milan Design Week, music performer Silvia Bolognesi was invited to participate to a jam session with the spiders/webs. Silvia Bolognesi is a double bass virtuoso and is considered as one of the most daring and interesting personalities of the Italian jazz scene. Her improvisation skills enter in dialogue with the spider/webs, transforming the installation into a collective musical instrument through which terrestrial and interplanetary tremors resound.
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSION #2 WITH BANI HAYKAL, SINGAPORE CCA
As part of Tomás Saraceno’s Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), NTU Singapore in 2015 curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu, Saraceno invited a number of musicians and performers to enter into an acoustic dialogue with spider/webs, mediated through the instruments of his Arachnid Orchestra. These encounters took the shape of three Jam Sessions. Jam Session #2: Variations on Hello was performed by musician Bani Haykal. Introduced by arachnologist Joseph K. H. Koh, Jam Session #1 incorporated a set of materials to transmit vibrations to the spiders, in an attempt to investigate whether specific frequencies and rhythmic patterns would trigger a response and produce a feedback mechanism between spiders and humans.
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSION #3 WITH JOYCE BEETUAN KOH AND ETIENNE TURPIN, SINGAPORE CCA
As part of Tomás Saraceno’s Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), NTU Singapore in 2015 curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu, Saraceno invited a number of musicians and performers to enter into an acoustic dialogue with spider/webs, mediated through the instruments of his Arachnid Orchestra. These encounters took the shape of three Jam Sessions. Jam Session #3: Away We Go was developed collaboratively by musician Joyce Betuan Koh and philosopher Etienne Turpin.
COSMIC JIVE THE SPIDER SESSIONS, VILLA CROCE (IT)
The result of a long-term collaboration with biologists, musicians, architects and electronic engineers to study the sounds and vibrations produced by spiders in their web, Cosmic Jive The Spider Sessions was a solo exhibition by Tomás Saraceno in 2014 at Villa Croce, Italy. For this exhibition, Saraceo developed early prototypes of the spider web sonification devices: highly sensitive piezo microphones that could pick up the vibrations that Nephila keniensis and Cyrtophora citricola spiders send and receive through their webs.
SPIDER SALON, HAUS DER KULTUREN DER WELT, BERLIN
A Spider Salon with Tomás Saraceno and Molly Nesbit in an encounter with an Eratigena atrica (Tegenaria atrica) spider in a sonified web in an open carbon frame. This Spider Salon took place at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in 2014, as part of the event, ‘’A Matter Theater’ (2014).
SPIDER SALON JAM SESSION WITH TOMOMI ADACHI
In September 2016, An early Spider Salon initiated in Tomás Saraceno’s Berlin studio, Berlin-based vocalist and composer Tomomi Adachi – renowned for his improvised music with voice, live electronics and self-made instruments – was invited to imagine an acoustic interspecies dialogue with a chorus of Cyrtophora citricola spiders, a Nephila senegalensis spider, and a percussive ensemble of Lycosidae spiders.
SPIDER SALON, STUDIO RECORDING WITH EVAN ZIPORYN
Head of Music and Theater Arts, inaugural Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) and clarinettist/composer Evan Ziporyn visited Studio Tomás Saraceno in Rummelsburg, Berlin in September 2015, to speak about spiders, art and the musical possibilities that resonate in and between spiders, webs, silk and humans. During this visit, Ziporyn engaged in an interspecies jam session with a duet of vibrating Cyrtophora citricola spiders in their shared, complex three-dimensional tent web. This encounter is described in the book: Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions (2017)
ARACHNID ORCHESTRA. JAM SESSION #1 WITH BRIAN O’REILLY, SINGAPORE CCA
As part of Tomás Saraceno’s Arachnid Orchestra. Jam Sessions solo exhibition at the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), NTU Singapore in 2015 curated by Ute Meta Bauer and Anca Rujoiu, Saraceno invited a number of musicians and performers to enter into an acoustic dialogue with spider/webs, mediated through the instruments of his Arachnid Orchestra. These encounters took the shape of three Jam Sessions. Jam Session #1 was with Brian O’Reilly, performing with a number of instruments which offered different ways of interacting with the sounds generated by the spider.
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Arachnid Jam Sessions. Recordings
Performers: Cyrtophora citricola, Nephila pilipes, and Brian O’Reilly.
Instruments: Tomás Saraceno, Hybrid solitary, semi-social instrument ESO 137-001 built by: one Nephila kenianensis, one week and a pair of Cyrtophora citricola, four weeks, 2015, spidersilk, carbon fibre, piezo, microphones, amplifier.
Modular synthesiser, electro-acoustic contrabass, electronics, gongs, and bowed cymbals.
Courtesy Cyrtophora citricola, Nephila pilipes, and Brian O’Reilly (United States /Singapore) musician and Lecturer, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. © NTU CCA Singapore, Studio Tomás Saraceno, and contributors
Jam Session, 7 November 2016, NTU CCA Singapore.
Performers: Cyrtophora citricola, Heteropoda venatoria and Bani Haykal.
Instruments: Tomás Saraceno, Hybrid solitary, semi-social instrument ESO 137-001 built by: one Nephila kenianensis, one week and a pair of Cyrtophora citricola, four weeks, 2015, spidersilk, carbon fibre, piezo, microphones, amplifier.
Tomás Saraceno, Hybrid solitary semi-social musical instrument SSA22-HCM1 built by: one Nephila clavipes, three weeks and three Cyrtophora citricola, ten weeks, 2015, spidersilk, carbon fibre, laser, vibrometer, amplifier.
Tomás Saraceno, Hybrid solitary semi-social musical instrument HDF 4-473.0 built by: one Nephila clavipes, four weeks and a pair of Cyrtophora citricola, seven weeks, 2015, spidersilk, carbon fibre, piezo microphones, amplifier.
Tomás Saraceno in collaboration with Dr Roland Mühlethaler, Drum-set M33, NGC 598 for a vibrational ensemble, 2015, laser, vibrometer, membrane, piezo elements, amplifier.
Courtesy Cyrtophora citricola, Heteropoda venatoria and Bani Haykal (Singapore) artist. © NTU CCA Singapore, Studio Tomás Saraceno, and contributors
#3 Jam Session Away We Go, 2 December 2016, NTU CCA Singapore.
Performers: Cyrtophora citricola, Heteropoda venatoria, Joyce Beetuan Koh (concept, music, composition, and direction) & Etienne Turpin (text), Nadine Ng, and Cheryl Ho.
Instruments: Tomás Saraceno in collaboration with Odysseus Klisouras, Aeolic instrument for a lighter-than-air ensemble, 2015, air stream, spidersilk, carbon fibre poles, webcam, video tracking.
Violins.
Courtesy Cyrtophora citricola, Heteropoda venatoria, Joyce Beetuan Koh (Singapore) musician and Vice Dean, Interdisciplinary Studies, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA), Singapore, and Etienne Turpin (Canada/Indonesia) philosopher and Founding Director of anexact office. © NTU CCA Singapore, Studio Tomás Saraceno and contributors
Sounding the Air draws inspiration from the phenomenon of spider ‘ballooning’, a behaviour in which some spiders use airborne dispersal to move between locations. They release several silk threads into the air which carries them away on updrafts of winds. Individuals or colonies are able to travel long distances on those aerial kites of gossamer silk, buoyed by thermal updrafts and electrostatic force. Those flights allow us to speculate about the possibility of a collective aerial flight and of interspecies attunement and collaboration with the forces of the atmosphere.
Aeolic Instrument for a Lighter-than-air Ensemble
On the occasion of Tomás Saraceno’s the Weaving The Cosmos hosted by Bulgari at Ulrico Hoepli’s Planetarium during the 2019 Milan Design Week, music performer Silvia Bolognesi was invited to participate to a jam session with the spiders/webs. Silvia Bolognesi is a double bass virtuoso and is considered as one of the most daring and interesting personalities of the Italian jazz scene. Her improvisation skills enter in dialogue with the spider/webs, transforming the installation into a collective musical instrument through which terrestrial and interplanetary tremors resound.
Spider Salon – Jam Session with Tomomi Adachi, Studio Tomás Saraceno, 2016