A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX

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Harvestworks Art and Technology Program presents a Song for two Mothers / Occam IX, two compositions by composer Laetitia Sonami and her mentor Eliane Radigue in the exhibition Time-Based Art: Space and Time in Tune. Originally performed in real-time with Sonami’s Spring Spyre instrument, and recently released by Black Truffle Records in LP form, Sonami re-visits these compositions for a first time multi-channel sound experience spatialized by master audio engineer Paul Geluso.

a Song for two Mothers (2023) – (aka Song of Tsar) “Devoid of spatial or temporal direction”, this recent composition for the Spring Spyre explores contrasting and unstable states made possible by the instrument’s springs moving thru pre-trained neural networks.

OCCAM IX (20  by Eliane RADIGUE composed for Laetitia SONAMI. Occam IX inscribes itself in a larger series of compositions entitled OCCAM OCEAN created by composer Eliane Radigue. This ninth composition was created with Laetitia Sonami and was the first composition for the newly conceived Spring Spyre.

Sonami’s sound performances, live film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and body.


Éliane Radigue is a French electronic music composer. She began working in the 1950s with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry. In the sixties she started composing with the Arp 2500 which became her sole instrument. Since 2001, Radigue only collaborates with instrumentalists, and applies a process of composition which resembles the means of oral transmission of traditional music.