We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Amy Cutler - The Many​-​Headed Moss

from Remembrance Species 2020 by Remembrance Species

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

about

‘The Many-Headed Moss’ is a track inspired by a specific ephemeral moss, Weissia multicapsularis (many-fruited beardless-moss). In 2001, the total world extent of this tiny-shooted moss was already less than 80 square cm, and its existence in odd centimetre patches in southern Britain has now declined from critically endangered to
questionable. The combination of greenhouse field recordings, record crackle and processed voice aims to imagine a sort of shrieking lull-a-bye for (or by) this largely unnoticed and un-mourned plant collective, partly inspired by Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ recent writing on environmental loss, coral, and the choral. Few living bryologists (moss experts) have ever seen this species, and even its online entries tend be on now-defunct global botany websites. Unlike the melancholy presence of a whale song in our imaginations, these tiny voices are easily lost, misplaced, or overlooked, even if we can choose to imagine the last colony perhaps surviving somewhere in a temporary state.

credits

from Remembrance Species 2020, released November 30, 2020
Dr. Amy Cutler is an experimental geographer and artist who makes work about environmental mourning and memory and its forms of
testimony and emotion. Her solo tapes include Örö Tape (Fieldtrips of the Damned) (Fractal Meat Cuts, 2020), the end (also ends) of (the) earth and variants (Crow Versus Crow), and GUTTER
(Misophonia, forthcoming 2021)|
www.amycutler.net

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Remembrance Species image

Remembrance Species Scotland, UK

Remembrance Species is a collective based in Scotland, marking Remembrance Day for Lost Species on November 30th through imaginative creative community engagement.

2011 - Funeral for the Great Auk

2012 - St Stephens Island Wren

2016 - "Circle; Cycle" by Great Auk Collective

2018 - Stellers Sea Cow

2020 - Axolotl / Coastal Seabirds ... more

contact / help

Contact Remembrance Species

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Remembrance Species, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now