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‘ Sharks are older than dinosaurs. They have evolved with the planet developing extraordinary perceptive mechanisms and have learned to navigate in straight lines by tracing the shifts in the earth’s magnetic crust at depths as great as 400m. They are still considered simply aggressive and continue to be slaughtered in vast numbers just for their fins to make soup. The truth is that a shark has to be one of the most sophisticated and beautiful of animals. ‘ km 2009
Love Shark is a four channel solo by Matthews in which she duets live with 18 oscillators driven by 6 hammerhead sharks whose journeys were recorded north of Wolf Island, Galapagos April 2009. Matthews dived with, recorded underwater and filmed hammerheads whilst on a month’s residency on the Galapagos islands then. She also collaborated with shark scientists who gave her this shark hunting journey data which she used to make the 3D sound installation You might come out of the water every time singing (2012). This work also provided the basis for this resultant shark synthesizer, made in collaboration with Dr Adam Parkinson.
Kaffe to date has performed Love Shark at the National History Museum, London; GRM, Paris; Café Oto, London as well as in Rome, Berlin, Sheffield, Singapore, Zaragoza, Gothenburg, Huddersfield and Margate.
You might come out of the water every time singing has shown in Liverpool, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London and the St Pieters Caves, Maastricht.