Native Instrument

Native Instrument is a duo of Stine Janvin (Norwegian vocalist and composer) and Felicity Mangan (Australian sound artist), based in Berlin. Their work places bioacoustics and vocal imitation at its centre — recordings of frogs, insects, birds and other non-human vocalisations are transformed, layered and performed alongside Janvin's own voice, which approaches these sounds through extended technique and precise mimicry.

The result is a body of work that blurs the boundary between ecological document and synthesised composition, between the animal and the technological, the found and the constructed.