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Cosmo Niklas Schüppel

Awareness and Movement and the Phonetic Garden

FOR THE FINAL DOCUMENTATION OF THIS WORK - VISIT:

https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Cosmo_Schueppel

The state of the reaserch as of June 1st

As a participatory sound installation the piece aims to create a space for inter special communication between humans and plants - a space to become aware of your effect on the world around and a space to mindfully experience your movement.

Awareness and Movement in a Phonetic Garden, a movement-meditation-interface of the Technocene opens questions of humankind’s relation with the world around them. In the human centred thinking of the Anthropocene it is often overlooked that our behaviour has an effect on our surrounding - as blatantly obvious as it is. This lack of awareness about the consequences of our action is affecting all living beings, in nature and in our society, in negative ways. It is time to overcome this lack of empathy to move into a new future.

The installation consists of a dimly lit space, with plants spread around. Every plant is connected to a self build device which measures changes in electric fields (EFs). EFs always surround us and are omni present. From my research and my experiments arose the observation that human movement can be detected through changes in EFs. Taking into account that plants and fungi communicate with electric signals, it can be assumed that plants can sense their surroundings through these changes in the electric fields. This thesis is, of course, still highly speculative and needs further experimentation. Consequently, the work does not aim to show these experimental observations. Instead, it tries to use the current state of this research to create a feedback loop, a mutual influence, a form of communication between human and plant. A communication, a connection which is supposed to result in a higher sensitivity in experiencing our surroundings. The work tries to make it possible, that we humans can experience our impact on the world around us, imminent and translated into a language that we can understand: Sound.

The sonification is accomplished as follows: The electric fields are measured with a self-build devise using an Arduino mini-computer. The EF data, measured in a relative manner in bits, is transcribed into sonic frequencies. (0-1023 bit = 100-3000Hz). There are two options for the sonification of the EF data. The frequencies transcribed from the electric field data, will either be altered digitally or in an analog way. Using either a software to change the sound or self build corpuses and resonance bodies. The experimentations to find the best solution are still a work in progress.

Max Patch
Arduino Code
0 Delay Example
50 Delay Example
100 Delay Example
350 Delay Example

References

Plants sensing human presents

File:1597645969Recognizing Individuals and Their Emotions Using Plants as Bio-Sensors through Electro-static Discharge.pdf

Plants sensing electric fields

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160708082037.htm

Electric Signals in Plants

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.02173/full

File:Davies_2006_bookchapter-2.pdf

Using Trees to send Radio Frequencies

https://we-make-money-not-art.com/tree_antenna/

File:tap.1975.1141017.pdf

EMF Detection on Arduino

https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-EMF-Detector/

History

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+== Awareness and Movement and the Phonetic Garden ==
+FOR THE FINAL DOCUMENTATION OF THIS WORK - VISIT:
+https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Cosmo_Schueppel
+''The state of the reaserch as of June 1st''
-''The state of the reaserch as of May 5th''
-'''''Conceptual aspects'''''
-''Awareness and Movement and the phonetic garden'' (working title) is planned to be a participatory room installation.
-The participator is offered the chance to interact with plants, through their movement in the space, in a speculative manner. The reactions of the plants are measured and sonified. The sonification is a tool to give a voice to the plant - a tool to communicate in a language that can be perceived by humans.
-When the participators perceive their audible impact on the plant, they themselves are influenced by their own actions. A feedback loop is created, which leads them back into the awareness of their ow impact on their surroundings.
-This closed loop of interaction opens the topic of a responsible and conscious way of living. As well as it raises questions about the hierarchies of human/non-human interactions and the human-centred thought patterns, that are imprinted in our culturally conditioned worldviews.
+''As a participatory sound installation the piece aims to create a space for inter special communication between humans and plants - a space to become aware of your effect on the world around and a space to mindfully experience your movement.''
+{{#ev:vimeo|716195918}}
+Awareness and Movement in a Phonetic Garden, a movement-meditation-interface of the Technocene opens questions of humankind’s relation with the world around them. In the human centred thinking of the Anthropocene it is often overlooked that our behaviour has an effect on our surrounding - as blatantly obvious as it is. This lack of awareness about the consequences of our action is affecting all living beings, in nature and in our society, in negative ways. It is time to overcome this lack of empathy to move into a new future.
-'''''Technical aspects'''''
+The installation consists of a dimly lit space, with plants spread around. Every plant is connected to a self build device which measures changes in electric fields (EFs). EFs always surround us and are omni present. From my research and my experiments arose the observation that human movement can be detected through changes in EFs. Taking into account that plants and fungi communicate with electric signals, it can be assumed that plants can sense their surroundings through these changes in the electric fields. This thesis is, of course, still highly speculative and needs further experimentation. Consequently, the work does not aim to show these experimental observations. Instead, it tries to use the current state of this research to create a feedback loop, a mutual influence, a form of communication between human and plant. A communication, a connection which is supposed to result in a higher sensitivity in experiencing our surroundings. The work tries to make it possible, that we humans can experience our impact on the world around us, imminent and translated into a language that we can understand: Sound.
-It is the measuring of the plants, that still has to be worked out.
+The sonification is accomplished as follows: The electric fields are measured with a self-build devise using an Arduino mini-computer. The EF data, measured in a relative manner in bits, is transcribed into sonic frequencies. (0-1023 bit = 100-3000Hz).
-What is measured? And how?
+There are two options for the sonification of the EF data. The frequencies transcribed from the electric field data, will either be altered digitally or in an analog way. Using either a software to change the sound or self build corpuses and resonance bodies. The experimentations to find the best solution are still a work in progress.
-''Option One''
-Measuring the electric resistance of the plants.
+<gallery>
-I have found that plants - as well as other beings - have puls-like, rhythmic changed in their resistance. When measured in plants this pulse is disrupted, when there is strong human movement in close proximity. My explanation was, that this impact is a change in the electromagnetic field of the plant. The field in which a change is visible is different from plant to plant.
+File:Screenshot 2022-06-01 at 20.03.25.png|Max Patch
+File:Screenshot 2022-06-01 at 20.27.30.png|400px|Arduino Code
+File:Screenshot 2022-06-01 at 19.59.54.png|400px|0 Delay Example
+File:Screenshot 2022-06-01 at 19.55.46.png|400px|50 Delay Example
+File:Screenshot 2022-06-01 at 19.55.00.png|400px|100 Delay Example
+File:Screenshot 2022-06-01 at 19.59.24.png|400px|350 Delay Example
+</gallery>
-''The problem''
-The detection-radius seemed bigger in early experiments, then it seems now. My guess is, that it is the different plants that change this field of impact.
-''Where do I go from here?''
-Experiments have to be made to understand the relations between the kind of plant and its radius.
-On the other hand, I have to find a way to make this measuring technique more sensitive, to again measure a wider range. If that is possible.
-''Option Two''
+'''''References'''''
-Measuring the electromagnetic field directly, using plants as antennas. There are experiments in the early years of the radio, where trees where used to send and receive radio signal (radio waves). It can be experimented upon, to use plants as receivers to measure electromagnetic fields, which would be influenced by the presence and movement by humans.
-The problem
-Building EMF measuring instrument, does not seem to be very complicated. But I am waiting to some parts, to be delivered on the 5th of May.
-The sonification will be achieved through Max MSP (Max for Live).
+Plants sensing human presents
+[[:File:1597645969Recognizing Individuals and Their Emotions Using Plants as Bio-Sensors through Electro-static Discharge.pdf]]
-'''''Aesthetical aspects'''''
+Plants sensing electric fields
-The installation would consist of a dimly lit room, with plants spread around the space. They are spread in a distance, that people can walk among them and are in the impact radius. In this way they can alway hear their impact on the plants.
+https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160708082037.htm
-Questions like: How many plant? How much space? Etc. will resolve themselves, ones the technical problems are fixed.
-The individual plants would be lit up in a green house aesthetic and would need to have always their own speaker, which spread their individual sonification. Through this it is made clear to the visitors, which plant they are influencing when and how.
+Electric Signals in Plants
+https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2017.02173/full
+[[:File:Davies_2006_bookchapter-2.pdf]]
-'''The state of the reaserch as of April 28th'''
-*[[220428sketch]]
+Using Trees to send Radio Frequencies
+https://we-make-money-not-art.com/tree_antenna/
+[[:File:tap.1975.1141017.pdf]]
-'''''References'''''
 ''EMF Detection on Arduino''
 https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-EMF-Detector/
+'''History'''
+''The state of the reaserch as of May 5th''
+*[[220505sketch]]
+''The state of the reaserch as of April 28th''
+*[[220428sketch]]