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Thanks to support by »Kulturbüro Hannover« (which gives us a first small budget) we were able to start a very special kind of experimental art-science-theatre-project in Hannover, Germany.
Lena, professional actress, biologist and artistic director of »THEATER AN DER GLOCKSEE«, wants to understand more about plant-behaviour and the possibility for humans to have empathic feelings towards a totally foreign or unknown species. She took a first step - and the huge world of plant-philosophies, artworks, science - and especially the connections to our society - blew her away. She re-acitvated her studies in biology and started a transformation to become an artist-scientist-hybrid.
She decided to start this art-science-theatre experiment with a very unexpected property of the plants: the sounds that plants create. Or don't create. And she asked Konstantin, a professional gardener and audioproducer, to join the project.
Step 1:
They collected hundreds of »secondary« sounds like rustling and cracking, the whisper of wind in trees and the jumping of seeds from domestic and wild plants.
Step 2:
They used a special device to create »primary« soundscapes by using the electric resistance between leaves and roots in the plants itself.
Step 3:
a) They started to combine both kinds of sounds and to create music - like danceable 120 bpm tracks - which is only based on this unique collection of sounds.
b) They created soundscapes, which are not danceable at first but create atmospheres, which slowly lead into a subtle rythm from repeated and composed sounds like wind and leaves.
Step 4:
a) Humans join in! What happens, if we are listening? And what happens, if we start moving/dancing to those sounds under special plant-circumstances, like with really slow motions or with our feet fixed to the ground (»roots«)?
b) What kind of associations will be created for the audience, what kind of images/feelings/associations do we have while dancing? Let‘s find out together!
