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Internal Garden: Research Collection Five

by Justin Wiggan

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" Internal Garden " is an active research project carried out by UK sound artist Justin Wiggan. Working with the Italian company Music of The Plants' device MU1 , Justin explored the signals registered from various plants biometric data. By deciphering and registering the impulses and interactions of plants, they have developed a device that uses a MIDI interface to transform the impedance from a leaf to the root system of a plant into music.

So intrigued by the results of his experiments of this device, which gives voice to plant perception, he wanted to push his connection with plant life furthermore.This resulted in the experiment with sending the plants signal from the device into his Body, as an immersive physical dimensional field.This was achieved by connecting the MU1 to a Subpac.

A SUBPAC is a wearable technology that pulses sound through the body mass with three layers of immersion by haptics vibrations of surface on skin, proprioceptive registration of changes in force, and pressure and bone conduction. The experiment was successful; plant and person became one.

It's Justin's focus to adapt this approach of new perception of delicate inter species languages, which impacts on the participants health and awareness about the consciousness of nature.

The first research experiments were carried out in Cornwall at the Fish Factory Art's Space for a handful of people, to experience the sonification and vibrational energy of plants. The reactions have now given way to a structural application. Being written for the use of the technology, to be used in places which nature cannot be accessed so easily (prisons, etc.) to facilitate memory health about green spaces.

Internal Garden: Research Collection Five

In this collection the artist admits failure on his approach. We felt it was important to share these field experiments as well as the successful experiments in this series.

In these three failed experiments Wiggan set out to investigate the transfer of phonic data between digital internet archives for Buster Keatons behavior and plant ability to hold information. This was done by placing a Prayer plant next to a laptop which was playing various Buster Keaton archive footage.

Prayer plant, (Maranta leuconeura), also called praying hands, flowering plant of the family Marantaceae, native to the New World tropics. It has spreading leaves that turn upward toward evening, seemingly in prayer for evening vespers.

It was Wiggan's intentions to see if the different content of the archives had an effect on the signals from the prayer plant, the experiment was carried out during dusk towards night time to see if the effect of the plant's leaves raising would also affect the signal.

Due to the complexity of the data needed and the themes within the work the recordings were then used as a sonic library for Wiggan to create a sound bed to compose with which elements of the archive footage were fed into. The results being a failed experiment however did produce an interesting set of sonic architecture.

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released January 25, 2019

Produced by: Justin Wiggan
justinwiggan.co.uk
facebook.com/justin.wiggan
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musicoftheplants.com/en/
subpac.com
lunarfestival.co.uk
futuremusicforum.com
fishfactoryarts.com?m=1
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Cover art by: TVVIN_PINEZ_M4LL & Justin Wiggan
Bonus art available with digital download
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Internal Garden T-Shirts available here:
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