The Seedy Audio

The Seedy Audio

Audio captured from Neil Luck’s portable audio recorder, Seligman Theatre, Chapter Arts Centre, September 21st 2024.
When Seeds Speak by Owen Lloyd in collaboration with Miranda Whall. When Seeds Speak uses field recording, bespoke synthesis and DSP to explore the context of, and data from, growing the Black Oat seed in West Wales.

Lloyd developed an application, using the Max programming environment, to create a generative processes that ran using the dataset gathered from the metabolic fingerprint analysis of the black oat seed. This uses the data to create music structures through synthesis techniques as well as timing control. Field recordings of processes within the lifecycle of the grain– sowing, harvesting, consumption – as well as sound generated by the analysis process itself are also used in the composition.

The final result, then, is composition governed by the dataset, that uses as its instrumentation sound recordings from the life of the seed as well as synthesised sound generated by the data themselves. 

The work exists as an album, available on bandcamp below, and as an extended performance work.

For more details visit owenlloyd.net/seeds