Wow. These creatures live in China and Mongolia. They prefer desert habitats, favouring sandy river basins with low shrub cover. They are capable of eating flying insects, using sound to pinpoint the location of the prey. Then they do a very quick leap to catch the flying prey. The long eared jerboa is classified as an endangered species.
“Listeners will hear the acoustic output of radio telescopes live. The content of the live transmission will depend on the objects being observed by partner telescopes. On any given occasion listeners may hear the planet Jupiter and its interaction with its moons, radiation from the Sun, activity from far-off pulsars or other astronomical phenomena.”
This includes a composition I made a long time ago - Figment (Epiphany in Rubber). It has taken on a life of its own as part of Matt Hulse’s Audible Picture Show, an international touring show of short audio works created for cinema.
The Audible Picture Show
SCREENINGS INCLUDING ‘FIGMENT’t:
2009: The Magic Lantern, CCA Glasgow, Scotland; Diversions Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Dukes, Lancaster, England
2008: FACT, Liverpool, England; Reading Experimental Film Festival, England; Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium; Scheld’apen, Antwerp, Belgium; Cat Strand, New Galloway, Scotland.
2007: Cinema Nova, Brussels, Belgium; London Short Film Festival, ICA, England; Studies in Sound: Listening in the Age of Visual Culture, University of Iowa, America.
2006: Split International Festival of New Film, Croatia, Curzon Soho, London, England. Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam, Netherlands; European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany; Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, England.
Shape shifting raccoons who fly by means of their testicles! Yes!
