Kate Carr, Matt Atkins

*2026 stock* What goes on inside a cell? What might it sound like? Inspired by tiny processes and interactions Organelles presents a sonic imaginary of intracellular operations. Cells are busy: folding proteins, exchanging gases, creating energy, growing, dividing, mutating and communicating. Likened to minute factories or warehouses, organelles are the entities which perform the specialised tasks which enable cellular life.

So often explored visually, this album offers one version of what the aural life of these tiny, fantastically-shaped organelles might sound like. Their ongoing and sporadic processes, small rhythms and exchanges and the everyday and cataclysmic events and encounters that might unfold on this smallest of scales.

With both Atkins and Carr's practices rooted in the amplification and looping of small objects, instruments and gestures, the pair came to the idea of Organelles via the process of improvisation itself. In the encounter between Atkins' and Carr's iterations and conglomerations of small vibrating objects, Organelles emerged as a collection of spluttering rhythms, creaks, rustles, strikes and chimes. A miniature world of speculative microsound which lurches between spiky textures, wonky rhythms, static, and the occasional off kilter melody.