Niloofar Sanandajizadeh

Floral Music Instruments

Floral Music Instruments is an installation in which humans can communicate with flowers. Touching these flowers, they play musical notes and show different visionary memories of the garden.

“What would be like the sound of followers and plants if they had any ?With a love I have for nature and a belief in the nature underlying intelligence and the idea of equality and interconnectedness between all creatures in the world, I designed this experience in which flowers transfer to musical instruments by touching them playing different notes and manipulating visuals.In this installation, flowers have a voice, and the sound is music notes! Touching flowers can manipulate visuals and show different ones.The music notes in this work metaphorically represent the flower's voice, and the visuals metaphorically represent the flower's visionary memory.This work is powered by physical computingtechnologies so users need to act in a certain way to create this connection. Inthis case, the user must touch a hand-shaped interface and the flowerssimultaneously to create a connection and work function.If the user behaves in this certain way, then by touching flowers, they createdifferent notes and switch between two states of visuals that represent twodifferent states of "connectivity " between humans and nature. Particle noise waschosen to represent the disconnection state, and a flower blooming time-lapse torepresent the connection state. It is like when the user touches a flower, theflower creates a sound to communicate with them and shows them a memory from agarden.This work was created with the use of technologies like the Max MSP program, the Playtronica microcontroller and physical computing and circuiting.”