VP is Victoria Pham, a Paris-based Australian/Vietnamese artist,
composer, writer, & evolutionary biologist. A self-described sound
painter & fantasy gardener.
Pham’s musical & artistic practice cannot be separated from her
scientific endeavours, which both inform & structure her creative
process. A partnership with nature is fundamental to not only her
scientific studies but also to her sound-based & visual work.
Pham has recently created a home for her multi-layered experiments
in Earthly Futures Studio, Paris; a bio-design & acoustic ecology lab/
atelier where she combines her work with sound & scientific research
into bioacoustics, sustainable synthetic biological materials & food.
Although Pham has worked with sound in many guises for an
extended period, COSMOSIS will be her debut album.
VP on COSMOSIS ~
Sound is an ecology—a living organism that hatches, breathes, decays & evolves. In COSMOSIS, I sought to build sonic imagined
landscapes—audible biomes that could belong to an Earth yet to
come or a world beyond our own. This project seeks to listen beyond
musical registers, hoping to bring to the surface the unheard &
seemingly invisible, finding communion with voices often ignored: the
hum of fungi stretching through soil, the exhalation of forests, the
echoing calls of creatures who have shaped our Earth alongside us,
some far longer than us.
