Abstract

Information on the specific project:

"Music Plants Music"
Sound installation by Daisuke Matsusaka and Miki Yui

The composition is a version of the sound art piece ‘Music Plants Music’ specially adapted for the ‘ModellRaum Auditorium’; it was originally developed for the Shibuya Botanical Centre in Japan during the two artists’ first collaboration.
Both musicians have closely observed the plant world as part of their respective artistic research and integrated it into their compositions. Miki Yui’s interest lies in the interaction between the plant world and the environment, which she interprets poetically and reflects in the structure of her music. Daisuke Matsuzaka’s work, on the other hand, evokes a sense of connection between the environment and life by generating music from the bioelectrical data of plants.
The composition was created using a programme developed by Daisuke Matsuzaka, which interprets bioelectrical data from plants musically in real time. The plants provide bioelectrical data that varies in response to sunlight, temperature, humidity and the presence of people, which in turn influences the composition of the piece.
Miki Yui’s tiny ‘sound fragments’ – in this case, purely electronic sounds – were woven into a living structure by the programme, enabling them to interact with the immediate ambient sounds and transform them into a vibrant musical space.
These sound impulses stimulate the listener’s ear to perceive the sounds differently.
As a living plant is unfortunately not suitable for a underground station, the piece performed in the auditorium is a reproduction of the work originally carried out using bioelectric data from a mango tree in Tokyo.
Nevertheless, by experiencing the interplay between the introduced sounds and the existing acoustic environment, this work enables listeners to gain a sense of how a plant interacts with its surroundings.

General information on the third phase of 3ModelRooms:

3ModelSpaces (Auditorium/Laboratory/Theatre)
Sound Corridors at Heinrich-Heine-Allee Underground Station
Phase 3
The third and current phase addresses the core research topic of the 3ModellRäume:
- How can the artistic use of sound enhance the quality of experience in public spaces?
- How can a synthesis of technologies, disciplines, formats and categories open up new avenues for innovation, creativity, cooperation, interactivity and partnerships in public spaces?
- How can sound, understood as a sculptural material that structures space and time, make static architectural spaces permeable to new meanings through its dynamic, fluid and ephemeral nature?
- How can collaborative and transdisciplinary artistic working methods address the diversity of the audience in this specific, functional, non-art context whilst simultaneously ensuring artistic insight and innovation?

In the projects of the third phase, various forms of collaboration have been and continue to be applied and tested:
- Art-sound projects in which, as a visual artist, I co-develop sound artworks in collaboration with artists or creatives from other disciplines.
- Projects in which, as an art director, I conceive themes or series and then invite artists to develop sound art contributions.
- Projects in which, as a curator, I invite artists to develop works for the spaces without providing detailed specifications, and am more interested in provoking as independent an artistic response as possible to the situation and the programme to date.
- Projects that were brought to me due to a particular interest in the unique qualities of the 3ModellRäume and are then, in a sense, realised in co-curation.
- Projects that take up cultural events in the city (festivals, exhibitions, anniversaries, etc.) and reflect on them in a synergistic way.
- Projects realised by invited guest curators.
- Various hybrid forms combining the above methodologies