Callie Rose Petal
| Callie Rose Petal | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 17, 1994 |
| Other names | notBorges, lonely carp, CARPVS MORTVVM |
| 🏫 Education | University of Warwick (BSc) Roslin Institute (Research) |
| 💼 Occupation | Artist, composer, software developer, writer, researcher |
| 📆 Years active | 2014—present |
| Known for | Lexicomythography, ritual performance, transmedia narrative |
| Notable work | KATABASIS: an underworld opera, What It Means to Be, IF ONLY HANDS COULD SPEAK, the medium is the wreckage |
| Style | Noise, experimental literature, ritual performance, transmedia narrative |
| 🏅 Awards | Do It Differently – Help Musicians UK (2019); Resident Entrepreneur – Creative Informatics (2020); Scottish Alternative Music Awards – Best Newcomer nominee (2022); KASHISH Queer Film Festival – Best Short Documentary (2023); Shortlisted – Unlimited UK Open Awards (2023). |
| 🌐 Website | https://carpvs.com |
Callie Rose Petal (born 17 April 1994) is a Scottish artist whose work spans performance, composition, software development, and experimental literature.
Her practice includes transmedia projects,[1] fictional languages,[2][3][4] and noise composition.[5]
Petal releases music under the alias notBorges (stylised notBorges),[1] with previous works issued as lonely carp[6] and CARPVS MORTVVM.[7] Her early releases have included a spoken word collaboration with indie rock project Car Seat Headrest, according to community archives.[8]
She studied bioinformatics and virology, contributing to avian influenza research at The Roslin Institute.[9] Her scientific background informs her creative methodology.[10]
Petal was later a Resident Entrepreneur with Creative Informatics,[11] where she developed an interactive web-based listening platform combining music with LGBTQ+ community data. During the residency, she expanded her programming practice, adapting her transmedia work for digital platforms. The project contributed to her later roles as a software developer and score composer for the documentary What It Means to Be.
Her performances and installations have been presented at events such as the Homografía Festival in Brussels,[12] StagEHd,[13] LTD Ink Corporation,[14] and Sneaky Pete's[15] in Edinburgh.
Notable works include KATABASIS: an underworld opera,[6][16] funded by Help Musicians UK[13], and IF ONLY HANDS COULD SPEAK,— presented at Homografía Festival in Brussels, it was a multidisciplinary performance involving live painting with staged self-mutilation and extended vocal technique. According to the festival programme, the piece addressed themes of trauma and bodily autonomy through performance-as-ritual.[17]
Her radio show "the medium is the wreckage" airs on EHFM.[18]
In 2022, she was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards.[19] In 2023, she was shortlisted for the Unlimited UK Open Awards.[20]
She starred in and composed the score for What It Means to Be, a documentary short by Lea Luiz de Oliveira.
The film screened in Glasgow,[21] Edinburgh,[22] and Brussels,[23] and won Best Short Documentary at KASHISH Pride Film Festival.
She performed in the full Edinburgh Fringe run of SHE/HER, co-produced by Nicole Ansari-Cox and Brian Cox[24] — where her musical storytelling and interpretive dance were described by reviewers in Voice Magazine,[25] TimeOut,[26] and Theatre Travels[27] as a standout element of the production.
Petal is the creator of Lexicomythography, a narrative framework integrating myth, code, and recursively embedded documents.[4] She has publicly explained aspects of Lexicomythography in a video essay, lexDef "initiation" {usage::: Noen} ||| {N.B. an introduction to lexicomythography}, published under the alias notBorges on YouTube.[28]
Her ARG-style projects are hosted on GitHub,[29] her official website,[4] and other platforms[30] using narrative version control and interactive CLIs.[1][4]
Petal has publicly discussed living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and being neurodivergent. These intersecting experiences inform her approach to pacing, access, embodiment, and trauma-informed creative work.[31]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "ⁿᵒᵗBorges". www.carpvs.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "SIPHO{Nr}". www.carpvs.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "EdO-OdE - The One Tongue". www.carpvs.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 "Forgive Me". www.carpvs.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "Callie Rose Petal: What It Means To Be". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Lonely Carp - Katabasis: An Underworld Opera". www.somegreatreward.scot. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "your shirt (ft. car seat headrest) by CARPVS MORTVVM". CARPVS MORTVVM. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ lonelycarp (2025-05-02). "that's all? how rude…". r/CSHFans. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Drobik-Czwarno, Wioleta; Wolc, Anna; Petal, Callie R.; Miedzinska, Katarzyna; Dekkers, Jack; Fulton, Janet E.; Smith, Jacqueline (2024-09-19). "Candidate Genes Associated with Survival Following Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Infection in Chickens". International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 25 (18). doi:10.3390/ijms251810056. ISSN 1422-0067. PMC 11432379 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 39337540 Check|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|article-number=ignored (help) - ↑ "Do- Knot Cyte". www.carpvs.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "A transformational time: How being a Resident Entrepreneur set Callie Rose Petal on a brand new career path". Creative Informatics. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "Callie Rose Petal". Homografía. 2025-05-31. p. Artist Profile.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Edinburgh StagEHd Festival reveals PROGRAMME". reviewsphere. 2022-03-28. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "One of Them - Exhibition opening night at LTD Ink Corporation". The Spit It Out Project. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "Aquelarre: Lonely Carp (Spit It Out) + Pako Vega (Sounds Of Ogigia)". 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "StagEHd – RoundUp". Corr Blimey. 2022-06-02. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "PERFORMANCE: IF ONLY HANDS COULD SPEAK | Homografía".
- ↑ "the medium is the wreckage".
- ↑ "Scottish Alternative Music Awards 2022: Nominations". Glasgow Music City Tours. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "UK Open Awards: The Shortlist - Unlimited". Unlimited. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Luiz de Oliveira, Lea (2023-06-17). "What It Means To Be Screening and Q&A (Glasgow)". Eventbrite. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Luiz de Oliveira, Lea (2023-06-17). "What It Means To Be Screening (Edinburgh)". Eventbrite. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Geometry. "Special Screening + Q&A". Homografia (in français). Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "The Week on Stage at Edinburgh Fringe, from Blanket Ban to She/Her". The Independent. 2022-08-14. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "She/Her". Voice Magazine. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Wilkinson, Chiara (2022-08-08). "'She/Her' review". TimeOut. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Travels, Theatre (2022-08-16). "Review: She/Her at Assembly George Square Studio One - Ed Fringe". Theatre Travels. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ Callie Rose Petal as ⁿᵒᵗBorges (2025-04-25). lexDef "initiation" {usage::: Noen} ||| {N.B. an introduction to lexicomythography}. Retrieved 2025-05-31 – via YouTube.
- ↑ "CR-ux - Overview". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "The Journals of ARIA|DNE". cr-ux.github.io. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
- ↑ "The Discovery". www.carpvs.com. Retrieved 2025-05-31.
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