Music with Plants
• Four pieces for Eurorack modular system with Instruō Scíon
• Developed as part of the “Brillant Darkness: Music and Nature After Human” project
• feat. ensemble hand werk
Music with Plants is a series of four Eurorack modular pieces that explore the idea of non-intentional musical creation. The series revolves around the Instruō Scíon module, which translates biofeedback data—taken from a plant or any other organic surface—into musically usable control signals. Scíon has a kind of built-in magic, but it is also unpredictable and difficult to tame. It pushes the performer into a genuinely co-creative role instead of allowing music to be made from a more familiar, ego-centered position. Once you allow it to act on its own terms and adopt a more symbiotic approach, the instrument–organism interaction becomes deeply rewarding.
Music with Plants was developed as part of the project Brilliant Darkness: Music and Nature After Human.
Brilliant Darkness – Art and Philosophy at the Edge of the Human is an ongoing series that I have curated since 2017 in collaboration with Ars Aperta – Hannover e.V.
Music with Plants, Nr.1
Solo
Music with Plants, Nr. 2 (2021)
feat. ensemble hand werk
Music with Plants, Nr.2 is a special collaboration with ensemble hand werk. The piece features Daniel Agi (Flute), Heni Kim (Clarinet) and Niklas Seidl (Cello) who perform along my Eurorack patch. This kind of combination between Eurorack Modular music and extended techniques of acoustic instruments is something I'm very interested in - not just because it combines two of my personal musical backgrounds, but also because I find it to be highly rewarding on terms of sound exploration.
The patch itself is a variation of my usual signal flow featuring two Mutable Rings and one Mutable Plaits going into Mannequins Three Sisters. Additional layers are being created by the same sound sources processed by Instruo Arbhar and Qu-Bit Data Bender.