Guest

Tāmaki Makaurau's guardians of noise, The Audio Foundation, have announced GUEST, the debut album from vegetable.machine.animal. An aurally explorative and collaborative project led by drummer KKieran Monaghan, who we're told "transforms living data from plants and fungi into voltage, translated into sound via modular synthesizer"! - Flying Out

A live conversation between plants, fungi, machines, and human musicians. What would it sound like if we could interact musically with plants and fungi—if humans stopped to listen and respond? vegetable.machine.animal is an interspecies improvisational trio exploring this question through a hybrid sonic language of biosignals, modular synthesis, and live drums. Led by drummer Kieran Monaghan, the project transforms living data from plants and fungi into voltage, translated into sound via modular synthesizer. Monaghan responds in real time, creating a feedback loop between human, organism, and machine.

Tracklist

1. Ice Water. Warming World
2. Contaminated by Humanness
3. Let the Shifting Ground Hold Me Up
4. The Strength of Rivers
5. Moat of Rest. Mote of Dust
6. The Floor Holds
7. The Physics of the Swing
8. Random Patternings
9. Exit when Entering
10. Exuberant Whimsy
11. No Evidence of the Future
12. Forward. Tense.
13. In the End, it is Enough