To reveal the diversity and hybridization hidden behind the close and everyday, we have proposed to listen to the plant species of the gardens and streets of Seville. Kleos is a ubiquitous sound work made from the remix of traditional music associated with the territories of origin of the existing plants in the city. Depending on your position in the city and the closest plants you have, the developed web application adjusts the volumes of the pieces of an open musical collage, the result of your movement.
The associated graphic collage plays with the shape of the floral clock devised by the botanist Carl Nilsson Linnæus, the father of modern taxonomy. But the time of this clock is musical, it is the tempo of the traditional music that resonates in every direction from Seville to the seas. Like a compass, it points to the plant species that surround us in Seville and the diversity that shapes us.
Musical sources
The sound piece for Kleos Sevilla is composed with 36 musical fragments from different regions of the world, each of these fragments sounds when we approach with the app to plant species whose biological origin is linked to that cultural region.
Chorotypes
Corotipos was another of the graphic works developed by several people for the edition of Luces de barrio in which KLEOS Sevilla was included. In Corotipos Esperanza Moreno developed a visualization that explored the relationship between the location of vegetation in the city and the origin of its species in the world. A kinetic reflection questioned us about identity or belonging, exposing us to the formation of different realities from the same elements.
App
You can install the app 'Kleos Sevilla' on your mobile and walk through the gardens and parks of the city to explore the musical piece and the stories and data associated with the plant species, as well as information about the project. In the app options you can control the listening radius and the number of plants (loops) you want to listen to at a time. By clicking on the species that sound on the map you can see what they are and access their botanical data and see more info about the associated piece of music.
+ info: Jardín Cosmopolita website
composition and collages: Ruben Alonso
direction and curatorship: Nomad Garden
software development: Datrik Intelligence
year: 2018
