Cameron is a composer, sensory percussion drummer, intermedia artist and educator, interested in the capacity of intermedia worldbuilding and parafiction to structure, reorient and proliferate sonic and musical experience.

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 A Gary Zhexi Zhang project commissioned by EPFL Lausanne and Enter the Hyper Scientific (2024).

FIlm (15 mins)
Director: Gary Zhexi Zhang 
Sound, Music: Cameron Graham
DOP: Fergus Carmichael 

Text by Gary Zhexi-Zhang:
How real is a hallucination? Metamers are different states of physical reality which produce the same phenomenal experience. It is generally believed that what appears as mental representation corresponds, via the sensory apparatus of the body, to the reality of an external world. Upon waking from a dream, the ancient philosopher Zhuangzi wondered: had he been Zhuangzi dreaming he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming it was Zhuangzi? The founder of psychophysics, Gustav Fechner, theorized mind and body—which he extended to the inanimate world—as a curve which is convex from one view and concave from another; he sought to scientifically measure their duality. Contemporary neurological evidence demonstrates that far more of our reality is made in the mind than we may like to believe: we live in a world that dreams of us, far more than we can dream of it.

Unfolding as a psychological and acoustic descent inside anonymous subterranean architectures, METAMERS is an extended hallucination, invoking exchanges between the history of perceptual knowledge and the development of industry, war, and primordial biological memory. Time flows, but without spatial constancy; like a dream, ambiences breathe through one another across icons, portals, and rhymes. A frog watches, but we do not know what its eyes are telling its brain.