PLANTMUSIC NATURE WALKS
Cassis B Staudt offers plant music sustainability walks
As already offered in August and September 2023 at BHROX Bauhaus reuse via the Technical University of Berlin, Cassis B attaches electrodes and sensors to plant leaves. This technology makes plants audible. They play music and trigger synthesizers.
Participants can bring their own plants too to listen to.
On a walk through nature, we decide together which tree, shrub, moss or grass we want to listen to next.
Cassis B Staudt offers a moving experience and connection with nature.
The next plant music walks will take place still in October, 2024 in Treptow.
Saturday/Sunday, 10/19 and 10/20/2024:
Baumschulenweg Cemetery, Kiefholzstr. 221-228, 12437 Berlin
We meet in the New Cemetery by the Wartehalle.
Three walks per day: 11 am, 1.30 pm, 4 pm,
Duration: approx. 90 min including talk
Admission: free
Please register at greensoundsworld 'at' gmail 'dot' com
Cassis B Staudt can be booked for individual plant music concerts or walks.
Sound artist uses special technology to make the plants “sing” –
tours of the Oberschöneweide and Baumschulenweg cemeteries in October 2024
Press release from 30.09.2024
Can flowers sing? How does a tree sound like? Does growing grass really make a sound? In October 2024, interested visitors can get to the bottom of these questions together with film music composer Cassis B Staudt on several tours of the Oberschöneweide and Baumschulenweg cemeteries - with biodata sonification. The sound artist attaches clamps and sensor pads to the leaves of plants, moss or mushrooms. The electrical resistance is measured and played back as sound via sound generators. Photosynthesis and other biochemical processes in plants can then be heard by humans on a synthesizer, for example.
With these “sustainability walks”, the district authority, in this case the Roads and Green Spaces Department, aims to raise public awareness of the importance of nature, which is worth protecting. As a nature-oriented measure in state-owned cemeteries, the walks are funded by the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport, Climate Protection and the Environment.
Dr. Claudia Leistner, District Councillor and Head of the Urban Development, Roads, Green Spaces and Environment Department:
“Nature relies on us humans to speak for it. With this special sound experience, we are giving plants and trees 'a voice' for a change. The sustainability walks can be an extraordinary and creative experience of nature that strengthens environmental awareness and creates a connection to nature. At the same time, we use the campaign to make it possible to experience our cemeteries in the district as spaces close to nature.”
Dates for the 2024 sustainability walks
At 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. at the
1) Oberschöneweide cemetery, extended Rathenaustr. 131a, 12459 Berlin
Saturday, 12.10.2024 and Sunday, 13.10.2024
2) Baumschulenweg cemetery, Kiefholzstr. 221-228, 12437 Berlin
Saturday, 19.10.2024 and Sunday, 20.10.2024
The tour takes about 90 minutes and participation is free of charge. The number of participants per tour is limited to 20 people. Registration is required at greensoundsworld@gmail.com.
Information on measures for the near-natural development of cemetery areas:
https://www.berlin.de/ba-treptow-koepenick/politik-und-verwaltung/aemter/strassen-und-gruenflaechenamt/gruen/artikel.1291086.php
Information on “plant music” with biodata sonification:
https://www.greensoundsworld.com/
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Rudower Chaussee 412489 Berlin
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Roads and Green Spaces Office
Neue Krugallee 412435 Berlin
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