Aristotle’s Jungle (2018)

Sound installation

Biosensor amplifier, relay system, houseplants, electric fans, lamps, contact microphones, sound mixer, loudspeakers

Through a system of cybernetic devices, plant photosynthesis is heard forming a sound narrative that also feeds itself through ventilators and light bulbs, generating a horizontal dialogue or bio-feedback system between organic beings and machines, somehow both working for air and light as whole purpose in itself through sound.

Predict the voice of a tropical rainforest back in 300 BC. Non-western philosophy... then.
How to detect a precarious reality in a futural sound material?
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A "translation device" connected to a plant gives signal switching on/off 8 prepared sounding electric fans.

Translation device

This system uses the biological rhythm data from the plant to switch on and off an eight-channel electricity relay system through a custom-built biosensor amplifier developed on a microprocessor. The electric fans paired with a light lamp then get activated and deactivated.

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