efforts in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are usually carried out for food or health, the artist David Benque investigates the role they would play these sciences in culture. Acoustic Botany is a sound genetic engineering project applied to a garden where cultivated genetically modified plant species that interact with the animal kingdom . A escosistema whose fruit is an organic musical product is a new way to exploit nature for human enjoyment, if they can still be considered natural.
Species project contains a giant amplifier lily (giant lilly speaker), which catches insects with its pollen and retained for 24 hours until they die. During that time the plant will amplify sound vibrations caused by the insect through a membrane placed on the sheet. Another example is the sound obtained through the fruits of walnut (nut tree string). The insects fall into the walnut shell and eat the flesh chewing rhythmically. The fibrous cords hold the fruit for a couple of days before falling to the ground, and meanwhile the shell will act as a resonant box.
may seem like science fiction but is a project to Benque has presented in the exhibition Work In Progress of the Royal College of Art in London, and whose musical crop harvest in the coming months.
giant lily amplifier
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