In interrelation with local rocky formations and earthly companions, Aio develops a soft sonic lithology of geo-rumbles, brittle stony timbres, minor rock falls, slow granular erosions and swampy oscillations. Sedimentary Murmurations - A Sonic Offering attunes listeners to the realities and dissonances of the small birch forests and the vast extraction fields of peat mining around it. Carefully considered microphony will be employed to attentively amplify the compositions of the lands intimate co-inhabitation, allowing subtle murmurations, sedimentary memories and present aliveness amidst and beyond loss and destruction to resonate with and through us in space/time. 

Remains of tools found from a settlement in the Middle Mesolithic period will return with us to the birch forest, witnesses formed in stone who carry the energies, memories and soundings of those who once inhabited the land long before. The sonority of their return, and that which continues in its resilience of vivacity, evokes and honors ancestral presences.

Clinging like a quiet sentinel to the birch’s pale bark, Fomitopsis betulina lives where decay meets renewal — a decomposer and a healer. In the quiet geometry of its pores, we find a code of resilience, written in spore and cellulose. Used for centuries to dress wounds, soothe the gut, and ward off infection, the birch polypore carries manyfold stories of healing.