By Tom Burke

THE TRANSPECIES SOCIETY IS AN ASSOCIATION THAT GIVES VOICE TO NON-HUMAN IDENTITIES; RAISES AWARENESS OF THE CHALLENGES TRANSPECIES FACE; ADVOCATES FOR THE FREEDOM OF SELF-DESIGN AND OFFERS THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SENSES AND ORGANS.

The Transpecies Orchestra explores the possibilites of using information from the various new senses of the cyborgs as a real time text for musical performance.

As ocenographic, meterological and seismic activity is perceived by various members of the orchestra, their bodies become musical processors and are played by the planet itself.

The transpecies orchestra offers a possibility of experiencing that which Timoty Morton has called: ‘Ecology without nature.’  An ecology where the boundary between human race and nature ceases to be drawn, and the hierachies of speciesism and its disciples no longer find their logic.