This work is about the attempts and failures of technology to recreate nature. Or, not-quite-failures, because the results are compelling even as they trend toward obscurity. It explores the contradictions of natural and artificial, and what happens when they mimic each other - the beauty in the uncanny. It’s also about the weird intrusions or incursions that technology makes, the way it seems out of place but also welcome. There is a dissonance between artificial and organic materials, forms, and sounds, and I’m interested in how both sides work to reconcile that. Someone sets their ringtone to a birdsong. A bird learns to sing like a car alarm. Which is the better technical reproduction? Which do you want to hear? Can I find ways to attune that dissonance to a harmony?