Sandbox: Plant Music with Sabine Moore

Join us at Sandbox, an open and informal gathering where leading sound practitioners share their latest work and meet fellow sound artists in London. This event explores sound creation through plant and mushroom bio-data.

Led by Latvian artist Sabīne Moore (Waterflower), the session invites participants into her decade-long practice of working with living systems as musical collaborators. Blending glitch, ambient, noise, and punk-influenced digital music, Waterflower transforms ecological signals into immersive soundscapes.

During the session, Sabīne will share insights from over a decade of plant- and mushroom-generated sound practice. From fully-improvised avantgarde and ambient "houseplant" concerts, to using plants and mushrooms for eco-electro-punk music, to their ongoing immersive study Latvijas Biotopu Skaņas ("Sounds of Latvian Biotopes"), they will explore how involving plants and mushrooms as co-creators can become a tool for ecological empathy, music composition and production, and rethinking interspecies connection.

This event will feature a plant and mushroom improvised "orchestra", tailored for a live multi-channel setup. To close, attendees will be invited to interact directly with the plants and mushrooms, experiencing their own connection to the living collaborators.

Facilitated by Annie Goh and Wajid Yaseen.

Annie Goh is an artist and researcher working primarily with sound, space, electronic media and generative processes within their social and cultural contexts. She completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019 on archaeoacoustics and sonic knowledge production, where she was also a Stuart Hall Foundation PhD Fellow. She co-curated the discourse program of CTM Festival Berlin 2013-2016 and is co-founder of the Sonic Cyberfeminisms project since 2015 with Dr Marie Thompson. She is Lecturer & Course Leader of BA Sound Arts at London College of Communication, University of Arts London.

Wajid Yaseen is founder and director of Modus Arts a National Portfolio Organisation with Arts Council England drawing on interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to developing public-facing sound-based artworks and events, encompassing installations, live performances, acousmatic musics, sound sculpture, sound archives, oral histories, and workshops.

About Sabine Moore:

Sabīne is a Latvian artist and musician best known for her project Waterflower, where she creates music using live signals from plants and mushrooms. Her work blends sound art, experimental music, and visual performance to explore the relationship between humans and nature.

For more information: waterflower.lv

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wat3rfl0wer/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WaterflowerMusic

Music with plants and mushrooms: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKHUeI7QICGHHbTpOVG7ImRQU1wepA9_e