Night in the Garden of Love (Digital Seedbanks), 2023

Night in the Garden of Love (Digital Seedbanks) are seven algorithmically generated plants responding to a new musical score.

Each screen presents an algorithmically generated plant, reminiscent of the painted forms of the textile pieces. The seedbanks grow before our eyes, ebbing and flowing through a fluctuating passage of time inspired by Lateef’s autophysiopsychic musical method. In January 2023, Dawood recorded a new improvisation session following Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic approach with several of his former collaborators and students; this was composed and arranged by Adam Rudolph and Alexis Marcelo, additional composition by Ralph Miles Jones, and featuring: Batya Sobel, Matt Waugh, Gwen Laster, Mia Theodoratus and Stephanie Griffin. The results are split between the different Seedbanks, creating individual soundtracks that overlap and intertwine to create a new musical composition.

Curated by Zoë Gray & Helena Kritis.

Produced by UBIK Productions. Co-commissioned by WIELS, Brussels and Aga Khan Museum, Toronto.

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