Exposition

trees: Pinus sylvestris (2016)

Marcus Maeder
open exposition

About this exposition

In the research project ‚trees: Rendering Ecophysiological Processes Audible‘, we worked on the acoustic recording, analysis and representation of ecophysiological and climatic processes in and around plants and studying the acoustic and aesthetic requirements for making them perceptible. We recorded sounds of plants and brought them in relation to other measurement data such as that relating to the microclimate, sap flow, changes in trunk radius and water potential in the plants’ organs – measurement data that is not auditory per se. How can processes that are beyond our normal perception be made directly perceptible, creating new experiences and opening a new window on nature for scientists, artists and the general public? To what extent is our sense of hearing of use? The product of our research project, the installation 'trees: Pinus sylvestris' replays sonifications of ecophysiological measurement data as well as recordings of acoustic emissions of a tree from early summer 2015 – the peak of the growth period of our experimentation plant, a Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) located in the central Swiss Alps in Salgesch in the canton of Valais. The installation is designed as an artistic observation system that transforms ecophysiological data into a generative piece of music. 'Trees: Pinus sylvestris' makes experienceable and audible the normally hidden processes by which a plant copes with its local conditions.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsecophysiology, ecology, sound art, Media Arts, bioacoustics, data sonification
date21/09/2015
published08/11/2016
last modified08/11/2016
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationZurich University of the Arts
licenseAll rights reserved
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/215961/215962
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.215961
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue11.
external linkhttp:/blog.zhdk.ch/marcusmaeder


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301573 Sonification relative air humidity % - copy Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
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254040 Screen Shot 2015-07-01 at 16.19.22 (3) Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
254036 trees Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
229266 IMG_1182 Jan Schacher All rights reserved
229244 pinussylv_ch4_peakfreq_190214 Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
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229230 IL_trees_n Jan Schacher All rights reserved
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229073 trees spatial audio version Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
229069 trees_cop21_booklet Marcus Maeder/domizil All rights reserved
228899 Forest Salgesch Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
228880 Pinus sylvestris treelab Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
228870 Monstera treelab Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226272 trees_pinus_sylvestris_stereo_version Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226259 trees_pinus_sylvestris Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226249 trees_pinus_sylvestris Marcus Maeder, 3Sat Nano All rights reserved
226246 trees: Pinus Sylvestris - Stereo version Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226243 Bildschirmfoto 2015-11-11 um 15.35.05 Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226234 Sapflow Pinus sylvestris Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226231 Sonification_Pinus_sylvestris_excerpt - copy Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226227 sapflow_pinus_sylv_def Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226224 Sonification_Pinus_sylvestris_excerpt Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226222 salgesch_data_monitor Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
226217 Sonification Interface Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
217563 acoustic_emissions_pinussylv Marcus Maeder All rights reserved
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