Tremulations

'Tremulations', 2025, Patrick Farmer and Jessa Carta, Resonant Frequency Room Tones, Camcorder Toning of Heron and Goldfinch charm as part ofcharm as part of Plas Bodfa AIR in Anglesey, Wales

Plas Bodfa is a 100 year old manor house with about as many incarnations and identities since its construction. Our draw to this site stemmed from an obscure victorian era occult novel involving intoning, true names and one of the first appearances of cymatics in fictional literature.

As part of our larger omni-disciplinary work, Tremulations, we coaxed resonant frequencies of certain rooms in Plas Bodfa. This was a kind of homeopathic engagement (thawing frozen light), one of Aquarian listening and psycho acoustics, of emptying and filling, moving toward refinement by way of degradation.

We were so moved by the process of making the inaudible audible that we decided to try and make the invisible visible by ‘toning’ video we made with a charm of goldfinches and a heron, both of whom were ever present thanks to the pond and wildflower meadow that Julie and her family have helped to generate. After several revolutions of ‘toning’, a type of defocalisation emerged, not dissimilar to images we glean from the realms of molecular biology and entheogenic experiences.

This work is intended for in person listening, please wear headphones for the nearest approximate experience.  

Tremulations / River Wye Plasma Drawings WIP
Jessa Carta and Patrick Farmer
pen, paper, himalayan balsam, ink, acitate 
2024

Dead Reckoning
ceramics, charcoal, salt, silver nitrate, bamboo paper 
2018, Published in Jane Magazine Issue Seven, 2019