The Joys and Complications of Creating Living Musical Instruments

As a young artist with just four years of experience, I share my thoughts, methodologies, and the blunders through a presentation on my recent projects (Signal 2022, Resonance 2023) and their unforeseen spinoffs.

About Mikael Hwang/Psients

Psients is a scientist-turned-artist exploring the intersection of biology, sound, and music by creating art that incorporates biological sources. His work centers around developing and performing alongside a new class of 'living' instruments to meditate on agency, speciesism, and our relationships with manipulated living systems.

• https://www.instagram.com/_adaacid_/

• The talk will be in-person at BioClub Tokyo and online at https://zoom.bioclub.tokyo
• The talk will be in English