Playing with Plant Music

This video shows the sculpture, Interdimensional Antenna, reacting to ‘Plant Music’. – To create

Plant Music, electrodes are fixed to the leaves of a plant to detect changes in its electrical activity.

The electrical currents that all plants produce, fluctuate in relation to their environment (including

touching of the leaves). With the use of Midi Sprout electronics, this electrical activity is then

converted into Plant Music, to which sound responsive sculptures can react.

 

Interdimensional Antenna (2018)

 

300cm x 87cm

 

Fluorescent acrylic, aluminium tube, clear acrylic tube, mirror acrylic, pine, Smart control system,

colour changing LED light source, blacklight blue (UV) LED light source.

This heat-sculpted acrylic sculpture has a triangular, pine base which houses a Smart control system.

The control system is connected to three, central strips of state-of-the-art LEDs. This enables

interaction with the sculpture via Smart technology and allows the selection of colours,

programming of sequences and an almost infinite variety of lighting effects. The piece can be

integrated into any Smart home system and can also access the microphone in any smartphone or

handheld device, transforming the sound that is sensed into a synchronised audio-visual display.