"What do the creatures that make noises in the night say? Mainly we don't know but we make a fair and generous guess if, among the many things they say, we imagine them telling us, 'Don't bother us, we want to live'."

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2004)

"Silence can occupy space with the stealth of fine white sound in subtle movement, an unoccupied chair in an empty room, an abandoned car, sifted flour falling on a chopping board, the cooling of boiled water."

David Toop, Sinister Resonance (2010)

To work indoors, in rooms, performance spaces or designed interiors, can be containing, ultimately restricting in its control of unpredictable, accidental, dangerous and fluctuating conditions. We will work with these fluctuations by moving outside, first absorbing the sensory ecology of moment-to-moment transitions as sounds, temperature, scents, air movement and humidity shift and intermingle. We will experience what it is to enter this subtle world, beginning by listening with the total body, then sensing a silent fitting into spaces of everyday objects and the place we call 'landscape', the world as it is beyond enclosures. We will search for the point where impulses of the outdoors and impulses inside the body can meet, allowing movement inside the body shape to develop before it emerges and closes off the boundaries of this shape.