Neil Aldridge & Charlotte Crichton

The Nature of Things' is a fifteen-minute sensory experience composed at Earthskin. Enveloping the audience in an aural and visual meditation, the work explores continuities and discontinuities between environments in India and Aotearoa — seemingly a world apart, yet both an integral part of the same biosphere. It signals notions of our changed and changing relationship with the natural world and our collective global responsibilities towards the environment and each other.

It incorporates: manipulated acoustic instruments; environmental field recordings from India and New Zealand; spectrograms (unique fingerprints of these recordings); fused with still and moving images. Large-scale, dream-like images radiate from the darkness immersing the audience in imaginary landscapes of textured light and sound. In this context, time and space combine to invite the audience to contemplate the precarious tensions and paradoxes, expressed through our current symbiotic relationship with the natural world.

You are welcome to come in at any time, but The Nature of Things starts on the hour and every fifteen minutes thereafter.