To mark the release of his new album/book, ISAM, Amob Tobin has collaborated with Saatchi Collection artist Tessa Farmer for a new installation in London.

Titled Control over Nature, the installation aims to combine sounds from the album with Farmer’s trademark sculptures, constructed from piece of organic material, such as roots, dead insects and bones. The results are typically familiar on the surface, but eerie and alien upon close examination.

According to the press release, the album’s themes include “sensory deprivation, disorientating situationism and the mechanisation of natural things”, making the art and music on show a perfect fit. Tessa’s work features heavily in the album artwork for ISAM, which also comes in a deluxe CD/book format.

According to Tobin, “there is common ground between Tessa and I … we’re both re-arranging and augmenting natural elements to make something imagined but tangible. We are both exploring new uses for familiar materials, or in Tessa’s case familiar creatures. I’m trying to take an objective approach to all my source material, whether it’s field recording or synthesis based or a mixture of the two. I’m treating it all as musically/creatively relevant and useful.”

ISAM: Control over Nature runs from May 26 to June 5, 11am-5pm every day, at the Crypt Gallery below St Pancras Church, Euston Road.