Botanical stress testing

The performance follows the dramatic nature of industrial stress tests applied to plants. Comparable stress tests on vegetation are playing an increasingly important role in research in the context of climate change. Beyond the scientific perspective, the performance “RE5ILIENT VEGETAT!ON” is dedicated to the aesthetic aspects of these experiments, in which the limits of plants’ resistance to suffocation, poisoning or mechanical stress (breakage test) are explored.

Short live experiments with rapidly changing measured values create a variation of synthesizer sounds. As a additional component, the installation “Falling Branches” generates different rhythms with a mechanical aperture that works with the sound of falling branches.

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Sound Performance
live experiments and mechanical rhythm machine
Based on Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Processing, Javascript, p5*js
Mixing-Desk plus PA, 20 Minutes