Plant Sounds: An Acoustic Exploration of Nature at the Botanical Garden Vienna

This exhibition, 'Plant Sounds,' is an acoustic exploration of plant life within the Botanical Garden of the University of Vienna. Musicians and students created sound installations that translate the invisible life processes of plants into audible experiences. Visitors could listen to how plant transport, vegetative reproduction, and other phenomena might sound, as imagined by the artists.

The 'Plant Sounds' exhibition offered a unique auditory perspective on the botanical world, aiming to make the largely invisible life processes of plants perceptible to humans. Musicians, including Richard Eigner, and students from the Class TransArts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna collaborated with biologist Ingeborg Lang to delve into the fundamentals of plant life. Following this research, the artists selected specific plants within the Botanical Garden to interpret their biological functions through sound. Sound stations were installed at various locations in the garden, inviting visitors to listen to the imagined sounds of plant transport, vegetative reproduction, and other processes. The exhibition was initially presented in May 2020, coinciding with the Week of Biodiversity, with resources like a station plan and linked sound files available for visitors to explore the plant sounds on their own smartphones.

Information about specific ticketing for this event is not provided on the page. Visitors could access the sound installations throughout the Botanical Garden, and information regarding museum admission policies would apply.