Sounding with Bats: Elo Masing, Francis Heery, Ernst Surberg + the resident bats at Floating

Sounding with Bats opens up a sonic universe where the pulsating echolocation calls of the resident bats at Floating inhabit a shared space with a synthesizer and a violin. An amplified heterodyne bat detector brings the bats’ signals to human hearing range and allows the musicians to interact with them.
Bats use ultrasound - very high frequency signals normally inaudible to humans - to orient themselves and hunt prey in the dark. Although they also have eyes, they’ve evolved a sophisticated sonar to “see” in low-light conditions that shield them from the eyes of predators.
The echolocation sound, a “carrier of meaning” for the bat, becomes a “carrier of meaning” for the musicians as well as the audience in the shared sonic situation.
Sounding together are:
𝙋𝙞𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙥𝙞𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙪𝙨 and/or 𝙉𝙮𝙘𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙡𝙖 - sonar + amplified detector
𝗘𝗹𝗼 𝗠𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 - violin
𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝘀 𝗛𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘆 - modular synthesizer
𝗘𝗿𝗻𝘀𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 - synthesizer
𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘺 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘴𝘰 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘦 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.
Entrance free