HERE SONG

Here Song is an interactive app for your mobile device created by artists Cannupa Hanska Luger & Ginger Dunnill with the support of Flux Projects. Using this application connects the user to place through unique coding which encourages users to scan the world around them and create a one of a kind sound composition to map the land. The practice of studying horizon-lines from which to create sonic experience and melody is a technology developed by Luger’s ancestors, the people of the Northern Plains tribes of North America. In developing this project Luger and Dunnill will invite a selection of leading Indigenous composers and musicians to create sounds which will be used in the application, allowing the user to engage with the artist’s work while weaving new sonic stories that engage directly with the land.

Here Song will release February 2021.

"The custom of following the horizon as inspiration from the land is an ancient technology of indigenous people that I believe is necessary for the survival of our species. 

It creates a path for patient observation of place as an antithesis to the extraction of materials. 

We must reinforce our belonging to place and this app may be a gentle reminder that the value of land is greater than the materials that make it up."  -Cannupa Hanska Luger

Artist Cannupa Hanska Luger has been part of Flux Projects: Flux Exchange since 2018, and this work is developed through that program.