Rearranging Rock is an ongoing audiovisual collaboration with the musician Maral that has been shown in various iterations at venues including The Wende Museum in Culver City, The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, The Henry Miller Library in Big Sur, and Human Resources Gallery in Los Angeles.
Progressing out of over 15 years of collaboration on stage visuals, Rearranging Rock explores sounds and images related to geologic time and the contents of the earth’s core; the molten metals beneath us and the radioactive rays above. Translating material facts into sonic riffs and visual gestures, and considering still unanswered questions surrounding the basic building blocks of our world, we tap into issues of deep time, radical ecology, sludgecore, and a playful, ongoing dedication to experimentation. The performance features new work inspired by recent pilgrimages throughout the windy mountains and dusty deserts of Southern California, a workshop on welding, and lifelong obsessions with the folk art & music of Persia and India.
“Life is rock rearranging itself” -Vladimir Vernadsky