Last June, Sinfonía Biótica formed part of the in.jer.to festival, held in Torre del Mar, in the province of Málaga. The proposal arrived thanks to MolinoLab, which presented the project in two strands: an immersive interactive installation and a live performance.
Interactive installation: the secret language of plants
In the first part, the public could come up to an interspecies installation that proposed a dialogue between the vegetal and the digital. A structure designed in 3D and printed with recycled filament housed three living plants.
Through sensors, the electrical impulses generated by the plants were turned into sound lines that worked as instruments within a constantly changing composition. At the same time, those signals modified a virtual environment —a digital replica of real spaces built with the Gaussian splatting technique—, producing visual variations tied to the biological pulse.
The experience was also collective: an organic interface allowed the public to intervene by touching different objects, adding their participation both on the sound plane and in the alterations of the virtual scene.
Savia Bruta: the force of the living, live
The second proposal came as a performance. Under the title Savia Bruta, MolinoLab offered several shows on the night of 6 June at the cultural space Tres Puertas. There, the audiovisual experimentation unfolded live, full of energy, reinforcing the connection between the natural and the technological.
With these two interventions at the festival, Sinfonía Biótica showed how art can become a meeting space between species, in which plants, humans and virtual environments collaborate in one and the same creative process.
Savia Bruta is a multidisciplinary interspecies performance that takes us into a futuristic reality in which humanity, trapped in routine and automatism, has unknowingly given up its autonomy to the plants. These vegetal entities, in apparent stillness, have woven a secret network of reciprocity: in exchange for allowing humans to dream —the only space in which they can still experience freedom— they lead them towards their own dreams. In these oneiric landscapes, humans become emissaries of plant life, travelling through symbolic worlds and wild memories to fulfil an urgent mission: to find a crack in the asphalt of the world, a fissure through which life can emerge.
Fusing dance, visual art, plants’ electrical impulses, interactive devices and live music, Savia Bruta unfolds a sensory ritual in which the borders between species, dream and waking, cement and root, dissolve. An evocation of the resistance of the green, and a call to remember that, even in the most sterile settings, life persists.
It was an enormous pleasure for us to share the time with the festival team; we were welcomed as family and felt as if we were in our own home.
Special thanks to the Tres Puertas team for the welcome, the support and the trust.
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