“No one told me that when i left home, the sounds of that particular past - during the formation of childhood and youth - would come back to haunt me; a distant call to return. And when that finally happened, the sounds had changed in its entirety - the familiar now an alien(ised) auditory landscape. To end the haunting was not possible - it never was to begin with.” ~ shi Blank, Oct 2024
LAGU MADU aims to appease this eldritch phenomena by playing a procedurally composed ambient soundtrack formed of sounds and field recordings by urban creatures and local wildlife.
LAGU MADU makes a comparison between the forced migration of fauna by violent displacement and the artist's own story of migrating to the UK by recreating the echoes from their past in Singapore combined with the now in Bradford.
It attempts to call attention to the disappearing sounds of nature and to reflect on the broader issue of biodiversity loss and the impact of human activities on the environment.
LAGU - a song
MADU - honey(pot)
It is an invocation for the past to reclaim the future.
Anthropogenic describes changes in nature made by people.
Bioacoustics is the study of the production, transmission and reception of animal sounds.
Defaunation is the loss of animals in all its forms, including extinction, extirpation, or population declines.
Defaunation is the reduction in animal populations and/or species extinctions due to human activity.
Field recording is the audio recording of natural and human-produced sounds outside a recording studio.
Blob stands for Binary Large Object and Blob storage is a type of cloud storage for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.