Starmaker (dual medium format slide/audio installation) entangles the realms of natural and cultural history and science fiction so that we can appreciate the oddities of both. A medium format slideshow of images – including dioramas in the American Museum of Natural History, rose farming in Ecuador, Dutch tulip fields, container ships and the coastline of the UK – is accompanied by field recordings and electronic sounds sampled from sci-fi movies. A version of the soundtrack to Starmaker can be listened to online. By Heather & Ivan Morison.
A further project is a 80 minute sound work for outdoor speakers Birds of North West Ecuador a collection of announced recordings of all the birds that Ivan spotted whilst birdwatching in the cloud forests of Ecuador.