{"id":2373,"date":"2024-07-15T16:06:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=2373"},"modified":"2024-07-15T16:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T16:06:04","slug":"quorum-sensing","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/portfolio-item\/quorum-sensing\/","title":{"rendered":"Quorum Sensing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-no-small-visibility fusion-no-medium-visibility\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:7%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-stretch fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:20px;--awb-padding-bottom:20px;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#f1f1f1;--awb-border-top:2px;--awb-border-style:solid;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInLeft\" data-animationDuration=\"0.8\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-row\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 caption\"><p>Participatory Performance and workshops<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:15%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2 caption\"><p>Fermentation (Sauerkraut making)<\/p>\n<p>Music (backing track and live violin)<\/p>\n<p>Visuals (After Effects)<\/p>\n<p>Sculpture\/Installation (raku pots, moulded soap, jars, hand washing stations)<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:15%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:6%;--awb-margin-bottom:6%;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h2 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:60;line-height:1.28;\">Quorum Sensing<\/h2><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:13%;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-2 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-six\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#676767;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h6 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:16;--minFontSize:16;line-height:1.5;\">Collective Sauerkraut making, time travel and communion with microbes<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-column-inner-bg-wrapper fusion-animated\" 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fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column fusion-empty-column-bg-image fusion-column-has-bg-image\" data-bg-url=\"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/tmpbz7dce6_.remini-enhanced.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"fusion-empty-dims-img-placeholder fusion-no-large-visibility\" aria-label=\"quorum sensing brassica\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271280%27%20height%3D%271280%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201280%201280%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271280%27%20height%3D%271280%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"work\" class=\"fusion-container-anchor\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:2%;--awb-padding-bottom:2%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-center\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-block\"><div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"--awb-max-width:2560px;--awb-max-height:1440px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxLAcGUIcZI?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture;\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-3 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><p>The summoning. I start by detuning my violin to match the starting pitches creating an unfamiliar, jarring new instrument, &#8216;tuning in&#8217; to janis and beginning my transformation of dismantling my familiar modes of being. The music and I play together until we reach a unity and the collective being janis arrives. We become a &#8216;we&#8217; and are ready to guide a collective happening.<\/p>\n<p>The imagery is a collaboration with ai image mixer huggingface, using my original ideogram experiment and text prompts of fungi, bacteria and yeast, then the resulting images iteratively recombined over several generations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"video\" class=\"fusion-container-anchor\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-3 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:2%;--awb-padding-right:8%;--awb-padding-bottom:2%;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:83.2%;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-4 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-stretch\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4 caption\"><p>Backing tracks used during the ceremony, created on violin and found objects<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><p>The structure of Summoning is informed by music played in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EWU5hnyQ7So?si=T7I9aF0Q6Z2JZPf4\">Malagasy Tromba ceremonies<\/a> and the chordal qualities of the new violin tuning (which were selected using the new musical system created for janis). The music is semi-improvisational and moves between different divisions of 12 (2,3,4,6) moving between fluttering transience and locked in groove.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column fusion-animated\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\" data-animationType=\"fadeInDown\" data-animationDuration=\"0.8\" data-animationOffset=\"top-into-view\" data-scroll-devices=\"small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-center fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6 caption\"><\/div><iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/1850505096&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sarahmfarmer\" title=\"sarahmfarmer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">sarahmfarmer<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/sarahmfarmer\/sets\/quorum-sensing\" title=\"Quorum Sensing\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Quorum Sensing<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><p>The riff of Work is an accidental connection to \u00a0Herbie Hancock&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ppJQKfqhFfE?si=nfNL109p507k1lat\">Watermelon Man<\/a>, which is a sample of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YcGZfVehez0&amp;t=12s\">Hindewehu music<\/a> of the BaBenz\u00e9l\u00e9 pygmies of the Central African Republic. When playing with scale that was created through the janis musical system looking for riffs, I was reminded of the watermelon man intro, which I saw as a janis like network to be embraced. The melodic line is stylised with a fusion of &#8216;ornaments&#8217; (the way a note is embellished) used in different fiddle musics around the world, such as slides, mordents, trills and krechts giving it no single identifiable cultural location.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:33.333333333333%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:5.76%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:5.76%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-3 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-three\" style=\"--awb-margin-top-small:0px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:20px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><h3 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"margin:0;--fontSize:30;line-height:1.5;\">Ritual running order<\/h3><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:66.666666666667%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:2.88%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:2.88%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-9 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:20px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"><h6>Proem:<\/h6>\n<p>Introduce why we are here, who is janis, who I am, what we will be doing (embarking on a collective happening using all of our senses, making permeable the membrane between the imaginary and real through storytelling and metaphor)<\/p>\n<h6>Transition 1: The summoning<\/h6>\n<p>tuning in to janis in this moment of spacetime, welcoming them into the host(s)<\/p>\n<h6>Quorum Sensing 1:<\/h6>\n<p>Introducing the process we will be embarking on, identifying key areas in the environment and what they do, in what order (hand washing\/cabbage tearing, salting, squishing, jarring, sitting&#8230;)<\/p>\n<h6>Transition 2:<\/h6>\n<p>Participants distribute themselves around the environment as they wish<\/p>\n<h6>Quorum Sensing 2:<\/h6>\n<p>We collectively undertake the work (creating the sauerkraut)<\/p>\n<h6>Transition 3:<\/h6>\n<p>Washing hands, resting, tuning in to the microbes (communication from) and embarking on time travel, connecting us across generations<\/p>\n<h6>Quorum Sensing 3:<\/h6>\n<p>Finishing our shared work (jarring\/distributing)<\/p>\n<h6>Transition 4:<\/h6>\n<p>leaving the janis collective\/returning<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2371,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[23],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-we-are-janis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2389,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/2373\/revisions\/2389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahmfarmer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}