Part of a greater project titled 'Inhabiting and Exoplanet', Geoffian Moon is one of a

collection of immersive worlds based upon embodied experiences of composers who are survivors of trauma. Using a process of meditation and daydreaming practice to connect with what is felt inside the body, these embodied experiences are communicated through the metaphor of navigating and inhabiting the surface of distant planets. Each of these planets has an atmosphere, gravity, temperature and terrain that is different from our own familiar Earth. Research into Rae Johnson’s ‘Embodied Social Justice’ and bell hooks’ feminist theory has prompted our inquiry into finding new ways to communicate embodied experience. We all inhabit bodies that are capable of both oppressing others and being oppressed and oppression, whether based upon gender, race, ability or age, is similarly held and experienced inside the body, impacting how we feel, move and communicate.

Taking inspiration from the text scores of Pauline Oliveros, particularly her notion of ‘listening inwards’ for sound, instrumental lines explore specific frustrations in relation to managing feelings of disconnection, numbness, anger and restlessness. The movement of performers will also be captured sonically through noise making materials like survival blankets. Sounds and textures form planetary landscapes

that have emerged naturally in response to listening inwards and spending time responding to the body’s need to move or engage with grounding techniques.