As Above, So Below is an interactive installation that uses computational biology and agent-based modelling to simulate the biochemical, metabolic and planetary processes within soil, and highlights how it is deeply impacted by the speculative logic of financial markets and industrial agriculture.

The floor projections simulate a living soil ecosystem, showing interactions between organisms, nutrients and seeds. Live agroindustrial market data displays crop demand, whilst touch-sensitive ceramic seeds help restore balance to the projected ecosystem by altering the sound and light in the space. This reveals how key agents in soil formation are affected by external forces like the stock market—reflecting how speculative financial activities, upon which organic life ultimately depends, influence and distort the biological cycles of our world.

Visitor presence and interaction contributes to the virtual biodiversity of the space, repairing broken pathways and revitalising the soil, supporting the seeds to germinate.

The installation offers a critical reflection on the accelerating pace of computational and speculative processes in the market, challenging our perception of human and more-than-human relationships in the age of digital capitalism.

‘A Tale of Two Seeds’ is a sound installation that explores the expansion of technical agro-industrial colonisation in Colombia. We use subterranean and surface recordings of the soil and recordings of electrical conductivity in the soy and amaranth plants to present a sonic testimony of the changing sounds of the Andean landscape.

This work explores the complex and invisible relationship between transgenic soy and amaranth. Before being labelled a parasite, amaranth was a plant that occupied a valuable and sacred place in the lives of many indigenous peoples. The transformation and loss of Latin American crop ecoacoustic soundscapes is a living testimony to soil degradation and the destruction of all the relationships that make up terrestrial biotic ecosystems.

The data collected from the plants comes from micro variations in plant conductivity, which led us to think of an electronic micro landscape. To sonify this, we used the collected data as a modulator of a granular synthesiser that cuts and rearranges micro fragments of electrical anomalies captured by radio antennas, revealing the information flow of the plants as complex layers of electromagnetic noise.

Geomantra is a sonic meditation device and web app designed to cultivate oryngham — the practice of deep listening with plants — and to assist human-plant communication through the act of social dreaming: What future will we dream when we dream with plants?

The geomantras are created by converting the words that describe the dream experience into number and form using the Magic Square method of Sigil Magic. This data is applied to an algorithm based on the principles of sacred geometry and growth patterns found in nature — the Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio and prime numbers — with Perlin Noise acting as a random event generator to affect grain and texture, mimicking the ‘wild’ signature of natural processes.

Soundscapes transform the geomantras using biodata recordings, binaural frequencies (Theta, Alpha, Delta), Solfeggio frequencies, the Schumann resonance of Earth (7.83Hz) and frequencies shown to stimulate plant growth (115–250Hz).