White Dwarf’s Lullaby is a minimalist choral composition that explores the entanglement of humans, machines, and nature in an era defined by technological acceleration and environmental crisis. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of making kin, the work invites a form of listening that embraces hybridity rather than human exceptionalism. The title refers to the stellar origin of carbon and imagines a collective lullaby addressed to our shared cosmic source. The piece combines three sonic layers: a field recording made at the Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore, a polyphony of industrial air-conditioning units, and a raw human voice. Drawing on oral choral traditions from Minho, Corsica, and Sardinia, the voice gradually expands through reverb and delay to become a hybrid, multispecies choir. The visual component unfolds as a minimalist, generative environment that reacts to this sound structure, producing fluid, metallic forms that slowly transform in response to the audio. Together, sound and image create a contemplative audiovisual field where minimalism becomes an aesthetic of slowness and attention, acting as a resistance to the logic of the attention economy.

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White Dwarf’s Lullaby is a minimalist choral composition exploring the entanglement of humans, machines, and nature in a time of technological acceleration and environmental crisis. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s notion of making kin, the work invites a form of listening that embraces hybridity rather than human exceptionalism. The title refers to the stellar origin of carbon, imagining a collective lullaby addressed to our shared cosmic source. The piece combines three sonic layers: a field recording from Bukit Brown Cemetery in Singapore, a polyphony of industrial air-conditioning units, and a raw human voice. Drawing on oral choral traditions from Minho, Corsica, and Sardinia, the voice gradually expands through reverb and delay into a hybrid, multispecies choir. The visual component unfolds as a minimalist, generative environment that reacts to this sonic structure, producing fluid and metallic forms that slowly transform in response to the sound. Together, sound and image create a contemplative audiovisual field where minimalism becomes an aesthetic of slowness and attention, resisting the logic of the attention economy.