Duet with a Dying Plant

On Saturday August 21, Swedish artist Per Huttner will be performing “Duet with a Dying Plant” at Brandenburger Kunstverein in Potsdam. The performance is a musical improvisation where the artist and a dying plant make sounds together. This is achieved by putting electrodes on the plant and on the artist’s skull. These generate real time measurements of their inner movements (the neurological movements of the artist and the dying plant’s inner signals). The measurements are then used to create digital sounds. The two sounds intertwine and affect both performers and create feedback loops between them.