Future Currents extends Sarah Martin-Nuss's exploration of ecological systems, interdependence, and transformation through voice and embodied sound. Originating as a live vocal activation of her 2025 exhibition at Rachel Uffner Gallery in New York, the project evolved into an LP produced with Berlin-based producer Jacob Bergson and an ensemble of vocalists and instrumentalists.

Blending spoken poetry, experimental composition, and song, Future Currents approaches voice as a relational force, using listening, repetition, and collective performance to explore how individual bodies become part of a shared ecology. Conceived as a continuous vinyl listening experience, the LP expands Martin-Nuss's investigation of collaboration, transformation, and the porous boundaries between self, environment, and collective experience. The recordings presented here, Unfolding and Open Systems, are two compositions from the larger LP set for release in early 2027.

Unfolding

Unfolding is an open-form composition for multiple voices, structured around a textual score exploring reproduction, extinction, and the human desire to influence the natural cycles of life. The composition begins with a single voice, gradually joined by two others. Each vocalist is free to interpret, sequence, and repeat fragments of the text, allowing the musical structure to emerge through collective listening and improvisation. Without a fixed tempo or predetermined progression, the performers negotiate shifting relationships of rhythm, harmony, and duration. Through repetition, accumulation, and convergence, three distinct voices move toward becoming one.

produced by Jacob Bergson

vocals by Sarah Martin-Nuss, Paige Lawson, Justine Leichtling

violin by Justine Leichtling

Open Systems

produced by Jacob Bergson

vocals by Sarah Martin-Nuss

percussion by Eli Cohen, David Nuss