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Release Date: 2022-10-21Label: No Type
This mushroom-inspired album stems from an art-science research project supported by The Michigan State University's CoLab Studio, in collaboration with Claudia Westermann, Vinny Montag and researchers at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU).Salvaggio borrows his project's title from feminist scholar Donna Haraway's term “worlding”, which emphasizes the ongoing relationships between occupants of a co-created world, rather than focusing on its individual pieces. Salvaggio refers to "Worlding" as a collaboration between human, synthesizer, and mushroom. The album's subtitle refers to another of Haraway’s terms “Sympoiesis”, which means “making-with”. A mushroom weaves its way into the circuitry of a synthesizer, engaging in a balance of cooperation and competition to produce music.
"Worlding"'s nine tracks represent as many different musical ways to treat the mushroom's unpredictable inputs, built from raw outputs of these mushroom-machine collaborations. Opening track “Fruiting” weaves an insistent melody with surprisingly percussive events. “Pinning” taps the mushroom's electrical impulses to trigger glorious arpeggiators and launches the whole track into space, while the somber “Zero Red One One One One One” triggers a seemingly human voice emitting one-syllable words on a bed of uncertain strings. Ambient as it is, "Worlding" finds many different ways to wander. Though made entirely out of electronic sounds, its tracks aim to convey the sound of the living.