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the Biotec Orchestra was a project produced by Ausland, Berlin running from Monday December 10th 2012 concluding with a performance on Friday 14th.
Collaboratively directed by Olivia Oyama, KH Jeron, Haco, Don Hill and Kaffe Matthews, it became a sound installation of plants, software, self-made electronic instruments and lights. An electro-acoustic jungle connecting, amplifying, generating, listening, manipulating, growing, playing, mixing rotting trees, potato oscillators, aeolian harps, mushrooms in glasses, electromagnetic fields, wind singing in leaves, a diorama, piezos, wires, moss, telluric currents, sensors, cacti, photosynthesis, field recordings and 14 participants.
” I’m curious at the possibility of working sonically with plants and their micro activities to make music within an orchestra of multi-skilled artists. To attempt to sonify the growth of plants and hear it live. To build instruments to enable this. My experiments will include making live processing set ups to feed back into the plants. This could include language and text with a view to creating or hearing another language made by plants. Vibration will be vital on a macro and micro level, of sending and receiving and sculpting within this environment, which will be collaborative. ” KM October 2012.
Trockenschwimmen is a series at ausland delving into tech bricolage, sharing knowledge, learning by doing, and developing ideas together.