At Wonderfruit’s Decade of Wonder in 2025 we worked with the live cinematographer and film documentarian Vincent Moon to create a sound and visual document representing an immersion into the entire community and activities of the festival, performed on the final evening of Wonderfruit at the largest stage, Creature. 

To start with, we wanted to create a work that involved as many of the Wonderfruit attendees, followers, and devotees as possible, so we co-ordinated a callout for content, inviting simple recorded messages sharing a response to the simple question “where do you find wonder? 

We considered doing this in advance via newsletters and social media would mean even those who were not able to attend Wonderfruit would be able to lend their voice, and to become a part of the Constellation, which when put together, turned a decade of attendance into a distributed choir. The result was a piece that was both deeply personal and collectively authored, where individual memories became part of a shared sonic fabric of the Choomchon.

Working with Moon, we created a collage of audio from our installations, in particular Choomchon Forest, and NOTEP’s voice, which we used to segue into, and to bookmark his extended live video performance - filmed over 24 hours a day throughout the festival, and including rituals, performances, morning dancers, and spiritual events across the fields. 

NOTEP appeared live on stage in costume, as the Mother Tree, and movement and dance from Tarini’s BEX ensemble happened alongside, with on and offstage in the crowd. 

It was designed to be a “Moment of Wonder”, and screening the [for one time only] Wonderfruit film at the festival itself, to the audience that was simultaneously living the scenes on screen, created an unusual layering of time, space and perspective: the community watching itself, in situ, at the moment of its own unfolding. 

For Choomchon Sound, this reinforced the idea that documentation is not just archive; it can be an active ingredient in community-making, especially when the unifying power of sound moving us [which we have shown is so very able to do so] is foregrounded.