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The House of Asterion
Project type
Soundtrack for a Multispecies Algorithmic Artwork
Date
2020
Location
London, UK
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The House of Asterion — after Borges, for Le Guin, and to Haraway’s chthonic ones — is an installation by Duncan Paterson with a generative soundtrack composed by Kris Cirkuit.
The work takes the form of a tangled, anti-linear computational shrine, exploring speculative computation through multispecies entanglement, digital traces, and machine memory. Foraging ants act as living processors, generating numbers mapped to a database of objects compiled by webcrawlers — non-human agents curating a flat ontology. The result is a unique experience for each visitor: an evolving memory-space that resists hierarchy and embraces queer, decentralised systems of knowledge.
For the soundtrack, I composed a generative ambient piece to mirror the entangled structure of the work. Written in a single sitting, it leans into intuition — slow-moving tonal shifts layered with interference and subterranean pulses. The sound sits like sediment beneath the installation: alive, present, but never directive.
