Plant music collaboration with musician Ruadhrí O’Sullivan, audio description by Mo Harte. Curated by Siobhán Mooney, IMMA, Earth Rising Festival Dublin, September 2023
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Audio description by Mo Harte
During Earth Rising Festival, musician Ruaidhrí O’Sullivan and artist Elida Maiques present a plant music performance, followed by a Q&A. Plantwerk started as a collaboration between Klinkerdin Arts Salon and Edible Bray, a public trail of community gardens in Bray. Together we created a sound garden where we listen to plants’ internal movements. Plants gurgle, stretch and turn. We hear.
How can we hear this? We attach sensors to a plant, which allows reading its biodata, like a heart monitor, with a midisprout gadget translating them into sound. The sounds have been programmed and finetuned by musician Ruaidhrí O’Sullivan. The project includes an audio description by writer Mo Harte.