Manchester Museum - interactive installation, "Juggling with Extinctions"

Interactive work composed for Manchester Museum's 'Living Worlds' Gallery in May 2023.

Developed with the voices of ‘strawberry’ and blue poisoned dart frogs in the vivarium elsewhere in the museum, and inspired by the harlequin toads and their inspiring story of regeneration during Covid lockdown, the story of Sadako Sasaki, a girl who died of leukaemia aged twelve, ten years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and who made paper cranes in the hope that they would help her recover, and finally, the symbol of mass extinction overhanging the space - a dinosaur skeleton.

A small motion sensor inside a toy globe enabled visitors to trigger sounds from a quad speaker set up when they played with it. These sounds accumulated gave way gradually to a composed work, which was played at intervals during the evening.