Robin Meier Wiratunga and Stephen Thompson 2022; Curated by Laurence Wagner Neuroscientist: Emma Ducos, Pigeon keeper: Marius Stritt, Composition: Robin Meier Wiratunga, Choreography: Stephen Thompson, String Trio: Anouck Genthon, Anna-Kaisa Meklin, Brice Catherin Produced by Belluard Bollwerk Festival
A neuroscientist, a dancer, a pigeon fancier and a string trio connect neuronal patterns in the brain with patterns in bird flocks, dance, music and language : “neuromancer meets ornithomancer”.
For the last decade or so, artist and composer Robin Meier Wiratunga has been working with different animal intelligences and presences, choreographing and orchestrating ravens, fireflies, insects and musicians in his unexpected and inspiring sound work.
A project by Trajal Harrell led to an encounter with artist and performer Stephen Thompson. Apophenia – Meaningful Connections between Unrelated Things is born of this friendship. It is a locus for generating new constellations of sound and movement and a means of experimenting with our understanding of the world through the prism of neuroscience and bird flight.
Could their patterns of flight be the neuronal pathways of the thinking universe? Apophenia is a performance for a scientist, a dancer, musicians and carrier pigeons.
Laurence Wagner, Director Belluard Bollwerk Festival: https://belluard.ch/en/shows/apophenia-meaningful-connections-between-unrelated-things
Réécriture d’une conversation entre Sophie Schwartz et Robin Meier Wiratunga lors du préambule du festival KorSonoR au Jardin Botanique de la Ville Genève.
Réécriture d’une conversation entre Sophie Schwartz et Robin Meier Wiratunga lors du préambule du festival KorSonoR au Jardin Botanique de la Ville Genève.
Robin Meier Wiratunga, 2025. Mixed media installation: Leporello score and directional sound, text collages, 3 channel video with stereo sound. Produced by NCCR Evolving Language and Universities of Zurich, Geneva and New York. Salle d’Exposition de l’Université de Genève. FR:
Robin Meier Wiratunga, 2025. Mixed media installation: Leporello score and directional sound, text collages, 3 channel video with stereo sound. Produced by NCCR Evolving Language and Universities of Zurich, Geneva and New York. Salle d’Exposition de l’Université de Genève. FR:
Vogelträume hörbar gemacht – zusammen mit Forscherinnen und Forschern hat der Schweizer Komponist Robin Meier Wiratunga die Träume von Zebrafinken dekodiert. SRF Link
Vogelträume hörbar gemacht – zusammen mit Forscherinnen und Forschern hat der Schweizer Komponist Robin Meier Wiratunga die Träume von Zebrafinken dekodiert. SRF Link
Des chercheurs et un artiste sonore ont mené une expérience inédite : isoler et reproduire les sons des chants dont rêvent les oiseaux. Le fruit de cette collaboration, une exposition immersive à l’Université de Genève, permet d’entendre ces mélodies oniriques, souvent
Des chercheurs et un artiste sonore ont mené une expérience inédite : isoler et reproduire les sons des chants dont rêvent les oiseaux. Le fruit de cette collaboration, une exposition immersive à l’Université de Genève, permet d’entendre ces mélodies oniriques, souvent
Tonight 9PM-1AM (CST) & again tomorrow 1PM-5PM (CST). https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org “Waves Beneath an Ocean of Wet Air” is an interactive sound collage that explores the connections between desert and sea. Imagine 7 exotic “radio stations” slowly drifting and crossfading into one
Tonight 9PM-1AM (CST) & again tomorrow 1PM-5PM (CST). https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org “Waves Beneath an Ocean of Wet Air” is an interactive sound collage that explores the connections between desert and sea. Imagine 7 exotic “radio stations” slowly drifting and crossfading into one
3 minute radio piece on NPR (National Public Radio), the American public broadcasting organization. Visitors can hear Björk’s immersive, otherworldly soundscape, Nature Manifesto, over the next few weeks as they climb the long, glass escalator that hugs the side of Centre Pompidou in
3 minute radio piece on NPR (National Public Radio), the American public broadcasting organization. Visitors can hear Björk’s immersive, otherworldly soundscape, Nature Manifesto, over the next few weeks as they climb the long, glass escalator that hugs the side of Centre Pompidou in
Conceived as a post-optimistic manifesto on nature, this sound piece by Björk and Aleph addresses the unprecedented loss of biodiversity and the collapse of ecosystems. Björk’s voice is accompanied by Robin Meier Wiratunga with the cries of extinct or endangered
Conceived as a post-optimistic manifesto on nature, this sound piece by Björk and Aleph addresses the unprecedented loss of biodiversity and the collapse of ecosystems. Björk’s voice is accompanied by Robin Meier Wiratunga with the cries of extinct or endangered
Generative Composition: Interactive website for The Learning Garden, Courtesy of the Artist, Commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. Curated by Rahul Gudipudi / Ute Meta Bauer. https://garden.dcab24.art/en/commission/robin-meier-wiratunga-waves-beneath-an-ocean-of-wet-air Waves beneath an ocean of wet
Generative Composition: Interactive website for The Learning Garden, Courtesy of the Artist, Commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundation for the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024. Curated by Rahul Gudipudi / Ute Meta Bauer. https://garden.dcab24.art/en/commission/robin-meier-wiratunga-waves-beneath-an-ocean-of-wet-air Waves beneath an ocean of wet
16mm photographic film was directly exposed to the light of two captive fireflies (Pteroptyx malaccae). Inside a dark space, without camera or optics, the insects were simply placed on an analogue film strip.
16mm photographic film was directly exposed to the light of two captive fireflies (Pteroptyx malaccae). Inside a dark space, without camera or optics, the insects were simply placed on an analogue film strip.