Over the years, we have built a considerable database of microscopic imagery, produced everytime we conduct a soil analysis. At some point, it became aparent we had enough of them so to represent the several stages of ecological succession, if it were a story to be told from a microscopic point of view; that is, in short, soil’s perspective on the history of life on earth. We wanted to tell people this story so, during a residency in 2023, we challenged ourselves to create a auviovisual and performance piece where we developed this narrative of how biomes on earth grow from no more than dead dust to biodiverse ecossystems, such as you would find in the old growth forests accross the globe.

Basing ourselves on or own collection of microbiological soil analyses, we translated sonified the invisible and inaudible relationships between microorganisms and all trophic layers emerging from them. ​We sing, play, talk and smash sticks and stones; we ferment, grind, cook acorns; we observe tiny living beings and narrate their invisible journey towards complex dynamic equilibrium. All in one place alone,  meeting somewhere in the middle - a lab, which is a music studio; a kitchen - different materials and tools flow together over diverse ways of seeing, thinking and feeling.​

Since nature talks to us in the language of patterns and institutions, ultimately, we seek ways in which these entities can help us rethink models of institution-making. We mix music and food to build narratives on physics, biochemistry, microbiology and ecology, inevitably leading us to the social and political fields.