Music for Wasps, Bats and Toads

Every creature is enclosed within its own sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. The term “Umwelt” – which describes a living organism relation to its environment – was coined in the early 20th century by the German zoologist Jakob von Uexküll. Uexküll claimed that every organism experiences the world differently, depending on its sensory and physical perception, and so, organisms that share the same environment but belong to different taxonomic orders, will have different perceptions of their habitat. As humans, we are unable to perceive what lies beyond the human hearing range. We can only use technological manipulation to “translate” sounds that elude our sensory perception to ones that are within the human hearing range.
After he presented the sound installation Umwelt, Daniel Meir intents to use its materials as the basis for live show. These include: ultrasonic recordings of insect-eating bats, some of which are endangered species, that live in caves and abandoned bunkers along the Israeli-Lebanese and Israeli-Jordanian borders; slow-motion recordings of life in swamps and winter pools; and the drumming of wasps in a nest built around a contact microphone.
For a moment, one can imagine a non-human audial perspective.