KÁTI V MILÁNO
SOUND DESIGN
FERMENTED REALITY APP
‘Fermented Reality’ is an AR app that allows us to experience the environment through the lenses of the microscopic organisms that inhabit everything around us (and inside us). We invite you to explore your surroundings through the app and see the world through fermentation on your own IOS device here.
The app brings the bubbling process of fermentation to the center. A reality that is not available to human eyes unless we use magnifying instruments or learn to identify their presence by their resulting products. Different cultures have learned through time to cohabitate and develop relationships with microbes, experiencing their environments through fermentation. During fermentation, organisms orchestrate a symphony of chemical reactions that lead to common products like bread, wine, beer, vinegar, cheese, yogurt, pickles, kombucha, and more. This app also speaks about a reality that is in constant change, where collaboration between diverse organisms brings cultures to develop new flavors, new environments, and new worlds. The process of fermentation demonstrates how microbes are collaborators that can provide sustainable solutions from the creation of food, to plastic alternatives and soil amendment (Bokashi composting).
Fermented reality is a collaboration between Joteva Studio, Maru García and Olderbrother with sound design by Káti V Miláno.
CHTONIC LIGHT
"Chthonic Light" serves as a meditation on the timeless cycle of death and rebirth. The word "Chtonic" in the title is a play on "chthonic," signifying the fertile underground soil where matter metamorphoses into a tonic for new life. In the first iteration of the piece, a LIDAR scan of a tiger lily emerges from an AI-generated nebula and undergoes a visual transformation from material decay to a digital constellation of subatomic particles. Produced in honor of my late grandmothers, the work explores themes of life's cyclical nature, highlighting the potential for renewal even in the face of profound loss. It juxtaposes the fleeting beauty of a flower with the celestial wonder of a nebula, inviting viewers to contemplate the interconnectedness between the macro and the micro. The first version of this work premiered as an immersive dome projection in October 2023 at Spectra Studio in Los Angeles.
Sound Design by: Káti V Miláno