14:00-16:00 | JUSTIN WIGGAN - INTERNAL GARDEN

2 FEB
14:00-16:00
QUARTERHOUSE ROOM 10

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Internal Garden Workshop / Performance Sound artist Justin Wiggan will explore biometric signals from plants in a daytime workshop with members of the public who will bring in their own plants. The recordings will be turned into vibrational energy Via subpac vests and fed into the participants. They will receive a sonic massage from their plant. What do the plants reveal about the owner? The results will be the foundation of a live performance Sunday for a unique plant wave gig.

What is your sound like?

'My sound fluctuates for every concept and adapts for purpose. It ranges from microtonal walls of noise similar to having a panic attack in a sweet shop to drawn out brain frequency sonic clouds to make you feel numb to your surroundings to internal astronaut explorations.'

What are you doing for Profound Sound?

'My performance "Internal Garden" is part of a 6-month immersive sound art research performance programme of live investigation, interactive art installation, educational events and a public exhibition in context of the themes of the sound art and plant consciousness. It is engagement between public curiousity, academic research, emerging technology, and nature, to experience a new perception of sound art and its role in the understanding of how it can help resilience and wellbeing by use of the technology to facilitate memory health about green spaces. I have been working with the Italian company Music of The Plants device Mu1 and USA company DATAGARDEN’S MidiSprout, to explore the signals registered from various plants biometric data , by deciphering and registering the impulses and interactions of plants with a device that uses a MIDI interface to transform the impedance from a leaf to the root system of a plant into music, which gives voice to plant perception.'

This is a very intimate experience, the experiment will send the plants signal from the device into the participant's body, as an immersive physical dimensional field. This is achieved by connection to a Subpac. A SUBPAC is a wearable technology that pulses sound through the body mass by three layers of immersion by haptics vibrations on the surface on skin, proprioceptive registration of changes in force and pressure and bone conduction.

Plant and person will become one.

The public will experience a new perception of delicate inter-species languages which will have positive impact on health and awareness about the consciousness of nature.

Internal Garden is a fresh and unique way to experience sound art as a whole physical experience which combines humans, nature, technologies, music and biometrics.

Internal Garden places sound art and interventional research in the public eye as a cultural enhancement and wellbeing engagement to audiences eager of technological curiosity, social impact and through the unique ‘songs’ generated by plants.

On Saturday's workshops, I will explore biometric signals from plants with members of the public who will bring in their own plants. These signals will be turned into vibrational energy via subpac vests and fed into the participants.They will receive a Sonic massage from their plant. But this also invites an interesting question: What do the plants reveal about the owner?'

How might people feel seeing you?

Safe, curious, challenged, hopeful, mind bent. You will never see plant life in the same way again!

Can people get involved – what do they need to do to take part?

I will be doing sessions of sonic plant vibrations at the Quarterhouse in groups of 4, these sessions will run for 20 min per group. Choose your timeslot and bring along your favourite living plant and I will plug you in!