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Akousmaflore
Sensitive and interactive musical plants

scenocosme : Grégory Lasserre & Anaïs met den Ancxt



The interactive garden

Akousmaflore is a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to human gestures and to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact or warmth by producing a specific sound. The plant «language» or song occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrical aura 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.


Alliance between nature and digital technology
In our artwork, we create hybrids between plants and digital technology. Plants are natural sensors and are sensitive to various energy flows.
Digital technologies permit us to establish a relationship between plants and sound. We 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 gestures and movements generate sound effects and changes in the texture of the sound.

Approach : invisible design
Our body continually produces an electrical and heat aura, which cannot be felt. This phenomenon exists in the environment immediately surrounding us. In our research, the «design of the invisible», our approach is to animate that which we cannot detect. Mixing reality with imagination, we propose a sensory experience that encourages us to think about our relationship with other living things and with energy. Indoor plants can have an ambiguous existence that swings between decorative object and living being. It is said that «inanimate objects» can react when they receive human attention. Through Akousmaflore, plants let us know about their existence by a scream, a melody or an acoustical vibration.

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Akousmaflore at BIACS3
International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville



Akousmaflore at centre arc en ciel
Download video(78 Mo)



Akousmaflore - wro09 - POLAND



Akousmaflore - Reportages TV
Arte TV - Festival VIA à Maubeuge - Interview de Véronique Godé / OREVO, RTS TV : Kulturna zakladnica (Cultural Treasury) : Kibla (Maribor - SLOVENIE), FR3 Région : Festival 38ème Rugissant (Grenoble - FR) , Monbled TV : Festival Artrock (St Brieuc - FR), M6 : Maison Salvan (Toulouse - FR)





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Exhibition places




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L'abbaye de Noirlac - Centre culturel de rencontre - Noirlac (FR)
The interactive universe from Scenocosme
"Contacts" + Akousmaflore + Kimapetra + SphèrAléas
18-19 Sept 2010 : Exhibition : www.abbayedenoirlac.fr

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Experimenta Utopia Now - 2010 International Biennial of Media Arts
The Arts Centre BlackBox

Melbourne (AUSTRALIA)
11 Fev - 14 March 2010 : Exhibition : www.experimenta.org - www.theartscentre.com.au

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CODE Live - The Cultural Olympiad's digital edition
Vancouver (CANADA)
4--28 Fev 2010 : Exhibition : www.vancouver2010.com

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Les Urbaines - emerging arts festivals / Arsenic - centre d'art scénique contemporain
Lausanne (SWITZERLAND)
4-5-6 Dec 2009 : Exhibition : www.urbaines.ch

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Lab30 - Augsburg's Media Arts Festival
Augsburg (GERMANY)
5-8 Nov 2009 : Exhibition : www.lab30.de

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Environment 2.0 - Future Everything / LICA (Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts)
Lancaster (UK)
7-31 Oct 2009 : Exhibition - Curators : Drew Hemment and Dennis Hopkins

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Espace Mendès France / le Lieu multiple - Poitiers (FR)
30 sept - 4 Oct 2009 : Exhibition : http://lieumultiple.org

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Festival Ososphère - Strasbourg (FR)
Akousmaflore + SphèrAléas
25 Sept - 3 Oct 2009 : Exhibition : www.ososphere.org

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Médiathèque Gabriela Mistral / Art et Paysage - Artigues-près-Bordeaux (FR)
Scenocosme : Cabinet de curiosités contemporaines
(22 sept - 26 sept 2009 : Exhibition

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Lille 3000 / Gare Saint-Sauveur - Lille (FR)
18 Sept - 8 Nov 2009 : Exhibition : www.lille3000.com

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Villa Romana / Jardin de semaine
Firenze (ITALY)
5 - 12 Sept 2009 : Exhibition : www.villaromana.org - curator : Angelika Stepken

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Utsikten Kunstsenter
Kvinesdal (NORWAY)
2 Sept - 25 Oct 2009 : Exhibition : www.utsiktenkunst.no - curator : Per Platou

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ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe / YOU[ser] 2.0
Das Jahrhundert des Konsumenten / The Century of the Consumer

curator : Peter Weibel
Karlsruhe (GERMANY)
30 April - 30 Augt 2009 : Exhibition : www.zkm.de

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ISEA 2009 / International Symposium Electronic Arts
Ormeau Baths Gallery
/ Belfast's contemporary art gallery
curator : Kathy Rae Huffman
Belfast (IRELAND)
7 - 31 Augt 2009 : Exhibition : www. isea2009 .org and www.ormeaubaths.co.uk

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« Jardins suspendus et monde flottant » / LAAC - La Clayette (FR)
18 Jully - 8 Augt 2009 : Exhibition

 
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« Jardins publics / Jardins privés » / Aldebaran - Castries (FR)
26-27-28 June 2009 : Exhibition

 
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Festival des jardins métissés / Parc de Wesserling / Musée textile - Husseren-Wesserling (FR)
14 June - 4 Oct 2009 : Exhibition : www.parc-wesserling.fr

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Festival Art Rock / Musée de Saint Brieuc - Saint-Brieuc (FR)
26 Mai - 1 June 2009 : Exhibition : www.artrock.org

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Les Féeries nocturnes - digital art biennal - Embrun (FR)
20 - 24 May 2009 : Exhibition : www.feesdhiver.fr

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Futuresonic 2009 / CUBE Gallery
Manchester (UK)
Curators : Drew Hemment and Dennis Hopkins
14 - 23 May 2009 : Exhibition : www..futuresonic.com

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WRO 09 - 13th Media Art Biennale / Wro Art Center / Entropia gallery
Wroclaw (POLAND)
5 - 10 May 2009 : Exhibition : http://wro09.wrocenter.pl and www.entropia.art.pl

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Centre culturel Maurice Eliot / De l'art : évolution / ARTEL 91
Scenocosme : Cabinet de curiosités contemporaines
Epinay-sous-Sénart (FR)
11 April - 30 May 2009 : Exhibition : www.artel91.org

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Festival Rokolectiv / Cultural Center The Ark
Bucharest (ROMANIA)
10 - 12 April 2009 : Exhibition : www.rokolectiv.ro curator : Cosmin Tapu

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Festival International EXIT 2009 / Maison des Arts de Créteil - Créteil (FR)
New Freaks ! - Nouveaux monstres !
12 - 22 March 2009 : Exhibition : www.maccreteil.com

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Festival International VIA / Espace Sculfort - Maubeuge (FR)
11 - 22 March 2009 : Exhibition : www.lemanege.com

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Galerie d’art de la Borde Basse - Castres (FR)
15 Jan - 6 Fev 2009 : Exhibition

 
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BIACS3 - International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Seville
CAAC - Andalusian centre of Contemporary Art
YOUniverse, the exhibition
Sevilla (SPAIN)
2 Oct 2008 - 11 Jan 2009 : Exhibition : www.fundacionbiacs.com/biacs3
Curator : Peter Weibel, director of ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany
Program : Biacs3_informacion_general.pdf

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Festival 38e Rugissants / Musée d'histoire Naturelle de Grenoble
Grenoble (FR)
13-23 Nov 2008 : Exhibition : www.38rugissants.com

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Théâtre de l'Agora / Circuit Eclectique / Electronics Arts - Evry (FR)
6-22 Nov 2008 : Exhibition : www.theatreagora.com & www.transnumeriques.be

 
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Centre Arc en ciel - Liévin (FR)
10 Oct - 8 Nov 2008 : Exhibition : www.arcenciel-lievin.fr

 
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Musiques de rues Festival / New territory for sound arts - Besançon (FR)
2-5 Oct 2008 : Exhibition : www.musiquesderues.com

 
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Musée départemental de Préhistoire d'Ile-de-France / Mémoires vives
"Scenocosme : Alchimie des sens"
Akousmaflore + Alsos* + SphèrAléas + Kimapetra

Nemours (Seine-et-Marne) (FR)
20-29 Sept 2008 : Residency + Exhibition : www.actart77.com

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Médiathèque municipale François-Mitterrand - Saintes (FR)
22 May - 30 Augt 2008 : Exhibition : www.ville-saintes.fr

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Festival Seconde Nature / Digital Art Festival - Aix en Provence (FR)
6-7 June 2008 : la cité du livre : Exhibition : www.secondenature.org

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Festival Mal au Pixel / Pixelache / Mains d'Oeuvres - Saint-Ouen (FR)
19-25 May 2008 : Exhibition : www.pixelache.ac

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Festival Internacional de las Artes de castilla y leon
Salamanca (SPAIN)
15 May - 15 June 2008 : Exhibition : www.festivalcyl.com

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La maison du Savoir - Saint Laurent de neste (FR)
8-20 April 2008 : Exhibition : www.neste-nistos.com

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Kibla multimedia center / Gallery for multimedia art and culture
Maribor (SLOVENIA)
4-19 April 2008 : Exhibition : www.kibla.org curator : Tincuta Parv

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Maison Salvan / Art & Science - Labège (FR)
"Scenocosme : Entre fiction et réalité"
7-11 Jan 2008 : Residency - 11 Jan - 2 Fev 2008 : Exhibition : www.maison-salvan.fr

 
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Fêtes des Lumières 2007 - Lyon (FR)
6,7,8,9 Dec 2007 : Exhibition : www.lumieres.lyon.fr



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