To Middle Species with Love, by Shawn Chiki, Onokio

To Middle Species with Love

by Shawn Chiki, Onokio

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	1.	Shawn Chiki - Batsong 🦇 12:27 video	info	buy track
	2.	Onokio - Bat Suite (v.3) 13:56	info	buy track

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100% of the music is produced purely from the recordings of Bats.

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To Middle Species, With Love is designed to amplify habitat conditions for urban wildlife in Columbus and bring increased visibility to their presence among us, as co-inhabitants of the built environment. These animals—which we call “Middle Species” in contrast to “flagship” species—are common and embedded in our communities: bats, birds, amphibians, reptiles. They are neighbors and residents who are active agents in our urban ecosystems and contribute significantly to the health of cities, yet often remain invisible in our imaginations of where we live.

Sited within the landscape of Mill Race Park, Hwang’s installation is conceived of as a series of “strata,” featuring bat and bird habitat conditions above, and environments for terrestrial and amphibious species below. To shift human perception to sense the less-visible world of urban animals, the project provides visitors ways to explore Middle Species sounds—particularly bat echolocation—by using ultrasonic detectors to regularly record bat calls, and make the recordings accessible to visitors—both in-person and through online platforms.

To Middle Species, With Love contributes to the ongoing work in Columbus to enhance biodiversity, and furthers the work of restoring river ecologies and imagining the riverfront as a public space for humans and nonhumans to enjoy.

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Joyce Hwang has enlisted Shawn Chiki and Onokio (Zach Williams) to help transfer the creatures' songs, sounds, and energies into their digital form, accompanying the physical site. 100% of the sounds are the bat calls Hwang recorded in preparation for the installation

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released August 20, 2021

Joyce Hwang: Exhibit Columbus UDRF, Installation Architect
Tim Shier: Indiana DNR Mammalogist, Bat Data Retrieval
Wildlife Acoustics: Bat Detectors and Recorders, on loan from Indiana DNR.
Shawn Chiki and Onokio (Zach Williams): Augmented Sound Processing

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ToMiddleSpeciesWithLove Columbus, Indiana

Mammals of the Chiroptera order, in collaboration with Homo Sapiens and their technology.

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