Living Matter is a 40 minute spatial sound installation by multi-instrumentalist and composer Mara Simpson and sound engineer, Tobin Jones, featuring the work of poet JLM Morton and visual artist Narna Hue. Taken from the album of the same name, Living Matter is a series of 10 compositions, responding to poems by JLM Morton. Following a summer of live touring, Mara has now reimagined the album for this immersive installation setting, re-mixing and re-arranging the tracks whilst working alongside long-term collaborator Tobin Jones.

Predominantly instrumental, with passages of field recording, song and explorative sound design, each of the ten tracks featured responds to a different poem by JLM Morton. Inspired by the landscape of Gloucestershire and its ancient histories (rooted in the Iron Age Dobunni), goddesses and guardian spirits (Cuda, Sulis Minerva and the Genii Cucullati), the poems and music explore identity and artefact, memory and belonging, the permeable boundaries between human and more-than-human, fostering care between all Living Matter. 

The accompanying installation artwork, devised by Narna Hue in collaboration with Mara and JLM Morton, draws further on these themes with the use of lines, natural dyes and narrative drawings.