Akousmaflore is an interactive installation, a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact by producing a specific sound. The plant «language» or song occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrostatic energy acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience is touching or stroking lightly them. A plant concert is created.

In their artwork, the artists Scenocosme create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit them to establish a relationship between plants and sound. They display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touches the installation, resulting in a random musical universe. Audience contacts with plants generate sound effects and change in the texture of the sound. There are specific vegetal languages through sonorous compositions. They signify characters, behaviors having a feedback, an influence on the reaction, on the feeling and on the approach of the spectator.

Our body continually produces an electrostatic energy, which cannot be felt. This energetic cloud follows us like an invisible shadow and touches lightly our environment. Mixing reality with imagination, Scenocosme animates that which we cannot detect and proposes a sensory experience that encourages us to think about our invisible relationship with other living being. Through Akousmaflore, plants let us know about their existence by a scream, a melody or an acoustical vibration.

Akousmaflore is a garden composed of real and living interactive plants. In this sensitive garden, plants react to the human presence, touch and gesture. Each plant reacts to different set of touch and proximities by complex sound composition.

In this tactile artwork with sensitive nature, the artists Scenocosme design evolutives interactions with living plants. Scenocosme uses the plants like sensors. They place wire near the roots of the plant in the soil, in symbiosis with it. With this interactive technology, plants become instrumented, and its senses are augmented.
The sensing approach used in this technology treats plants and human as a biological interface. Plants and humans become living sensors. Differents approach with the plants allow to produce many kind of interactions with sounds.
A large range of sensitive interactions are possible. People can touch the stem or the leaves. Plants react to the proximity and also the intensity of the touch. Each plant has a voice and a specific interactive character which are chosen according to it form and texture of leaves. Their sensing technology allows them to play with these characteristics in the treatment of the sound. By this way, Scenocosme designs interactive garden artworks where the plants are used as sensing capacitive technology and interface.

By giving a voice to plants, Akousmaflore offers the possibility to respond and engage the audience. Akousmaflore encourages each people to enter and interact inside a surrounding physical environment. This artwork engages physically the people inside a social space and experience. Visitors can stay a long time inside the artwork and share this extraordinary experience with the other one.

Side story Akousmaflore is an interactive installation, a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact by producing a specific sound. The plant «language» or song occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrostatic energy acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience is touching or stroking lightly them. A plant concert is created.

In their artwork, the artists Scenocosme create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows. Digital technologies permit them to establish a relationship between plants and sound. They display the effects of random data flow and plant interaction. The data is modified as the spectator meanders around and touches the installation, resulting in a random musical universe. Audience contacts with plants generate sound effects and change in the texture of the sound. There are specific vegetal languages through sonorous compositions. They signify characters, behaviors having a feedback, an influence on the reaction, on the feeling and on the approach of the spectator.

Our body continually produces an electrostatic energy, which cannot be felt. This energetic cloud follows us like an invisible shadow and touches lightly our environment. Mixing reality with imagination, Scenocosme animates that which we cannot detect and proposes a sensory experience that encourages us to think about our invisible relationship with other living being. Through Akousmaflore, plants let us know about their existence by a scream, a melody or an acoustical vibration.

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