special projects
UNRAVELLING THE MIND
A MULTISENSORIAL PERFORMANCE
Unravelling the Mind is a multi sensorial experience that uses cutting edge scientific ideas to pose the question: what is intelligence? The show introduces the audience to the problem solving abilities of slime mould, as well as the insight held by indigenous Amazonian plant experts into microbiology and ecology, provoking both wonderment and respect for nature. Using innovative live music by award-winning duo Witch ’n’ Monk and scent design inspired by the smell of a complex rainforest; plants, moss and fruit, ‘Unravelling the Mind’ is an artistic response to the climate crisis, that provides a connection between science and the senses, leaving the audience with a new perspective on intelligent life, that places nature and the environment in the centre of our value system.
witchumonkumentary
AN AUDIO PORTRAIT BY STEVE URQUHART
“Just half an hour long, this is a brilliantly produced piece that definitely requires headphones. Repeated sounds, voices that ebb and flow, small sonic notes that build to create a wonderfully experimental audio piece about the making of the most recent album by Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra, AKA Witch ’n’ Monk. Both are charming characters, but this is far from a straightforward love-the-artist documentary. The music is beautifully recorded and the whole show hums with an amazing environmental presence. Produced by Steve Urquhart and featured on Resonance FM’s Clear Spot show, this is one to listen to when you want to be taken somewhere else.”
- The Observer
MUSIC FOR RADIO
'ICH WÜNSCHTE ICH HÄTTE DICH VOR DEM INTERNET KENNENGELERNT'
WRITTEN BY LARS WERNER
MUSIC BY WITCH 'N' MONK
FOR DEUTSCHLANDFUNK KULTUR
