Dschungel Wien Modern: Gras wachsen hören
Thursday, 21. November 2019, 19:00
Gras wachsen hören © Liquid Penguin Ensemble
For 112 years now, the world famous biolingua-Institut has been setting new standards in the research into the relationship between humans and plants. At the Wien Modern festival, it will open the doors to its mysterious laboratory in Dschungel Wien to the public for the first time and invite you to take a look behind the scenes. The tour will be worth it alone as the researchers and scientists of this venerable institute have come up with a ground-breaking discovery: The apparently silent world of plants is, in fact, one full of sound. In the biolingua-Institut you can finally hear everything that was previously hidden to our human ears – such as the sigh-like digestive sounds of Aloe Vera, the powerful creaking of a 400-year-old, 90-meter high giant eucalyptus tree in the dark forests of Tasmania or the wonderful musical scales played by raindrops falling on leaves. Suddenly, visitors develop a sense for the growth processes of plants and their very own, much slower and clearer perception of time. And once you have heard with your own ears with what deliberation a second passes for a giant redwood tree, then you will have an idea how to understand the language of the potted plants in your living room. How can people communicate with plants? That is a question which many generations of scientist have asked themselves. Armed with state-of-the-art acoustic technology, the scientists of the biolingua Institut can tell the most improbable stories from a hundred years of research. They can undertake their own experiments, test the musical talent of whole forests, and take up their instruments in order to tune up for the botanic concert and sing to chives.
Artists
Katharina Bihler,
Text, Stimme
Marius Buck,
Installationen, Perkussion
Elisabeth Flunger,
Percussion
Stefan Scheib,
Kontrabass, Elektronik
Klaus Pahlke,
Technische Entwicklung der pflanzengesteuerten Klanginstallation
Hannes Röbisch,
Raum
Liquid Penguin Ensemble,
Raum
Program
Liquid Penguin
Gras wachsen hören. Konzertperformance
Kompositionsauftrag von Wien Modern
Remark
Produktion Wien Modern, Dschungel Wien und Liquid Penguin Ensemble
Für junges Publikum ab 12 Jahren
Basierend auf Liquid Penguins Hörspiel »Gras wachsen hören« (Saarländischer Rundfunk 2007; Hörspiel des Monats Dezember 2007, Deutscher Hörspielpreis der ARD und ARD Online Award 2008)
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung des Ministeriums für Bildung und Kultur des Saarlandes