Robin Tetlow-Shooter- MA Sound Design
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Robin Tetlow-Shooter is a multidisciplinary artist working with audio/visual systems. His practice is rooted in ambient and experimental sound, particularly in the lineage of Kankyō Ongaku, wherein sound is approached not as composition, but as atmosphere architecture, and a way of reconfiguring perception.
Throughout his work, Robin explores post-human speculative physical and virtual design - investigating entropy and agency across living and non-living systems. As a sound artist and musician practicing under the name ‘Azrel’, Robin constructs immersive, deconstructed sound environments meditating on texture, stillness and transformation.
‘phyto-relay i.1’ represents a step into the spatial, responsive and multisensory form, wherein the work is manifested as a multi-sensory artefact object, reflecting on communion and non-human agency.
The work also reflects on humanity’s perception of technology, divinity, and revelation: the impulse to locate transcendence in systems we cannot fully comprehend, and to pursue technological development as a form of progress, salvation, or gnosis. By framing the plant-machine relationship as a kind of non-agentic communion, phyto-relay i.1 considers how technological systems can take on ritual, prophetic, or sacred qualities, even as the human subject recedes from the scene. What remains is a material and unstable ecology of signals, growth, and response.
This system is an audio-visual feedback loop, wherein the plant interfaces with its ecology without will. It acts as performer, effector and effected, within a system in the wake of, and removed from, human control.