Sarah Song

"When the sonic memories embedded in an urban soundscape becomes the DNA, a new species emerges. 

This site-specific project “The X ori” uses recordings of the local dialect speakers in Shanghai as a parameter to generate “lichens” in digital spaces to visualize the uniqueness of the city and express the idea that each “lichen” is a self-image of a “new self” captured in a specific period of time. The artwork is titled "The X ori" in which "Ori" refers to the specific base pair sequence in a circular DNA and “X” implies the unknown or uncertainty." (Sarah Song, 2021)