Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Akousmaflore

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This piece of art Akousmaflore (2007) is a musical garden composed of a number of hanging plants that can swing and create sounds based on contact and
The artists Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt were aiming to create a living musical instrument that can be used via human gesture and lightly moving or touching the plants, the sounds created can range from screams to melodies but the sounds are at random generated by software.

This piece of art is intriguing t me because it blurs the line between digital and organic installations and how we as humans interact with our environments around us. The aspect of an organic virtual instrument is ground breaking because the line between organic plant growth, and digital programming used in artistic installations. This art installation is place din a hallway full of hanging plants that each produce a unique sound, based on the people and objects and stimuli around the plants.

I think that this group of artists has achieved their goal of mixing both the digital world and the organic world intertwined to create a unique piece of musical programing art.

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