Matthews+Harrington have begin a residency onboard ~Flow. An exquisitely made wooden instrument that floats on the Tyne making music from the rivers tidal patterns. Bellows pump, probes dip in and out of vessels of river water whose saline and therefore electrolytic content changes with the tide, so changing notes; turbidity measurements motions are optimally amplified and all the time, she creaks and groans as an ancient sailing ship in the times of Moby Dick. Needing to contextualise this laboratory within the Tyne as a whole, they make a break up river to Wark.  Within 3 mins, they’re rewarded. There lying on the grass is their first witnessed wild salmon glinting in the grass.

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