Aether, on Thursday 28 April 8 PM at B.a.d in Rotterdam http://www.foundationbad.nl/
The project "Jardin sonore ambulant" is a prolongation of the first Douala sound garden, created January 2010 in the neighborhood Bonamouti, Douala Cameroon. This is an elevated garden growing at the sound of the water.Different kinds of sound are directly conducted by the plants partition need of water. The water is collected by rainfall, stocked in barrels and offered to the vertical garden trough transparent tubes using a hydrophonic dripping system. Drops of water drip into cans of different sizes, creating notes, producing foods.
The Douala sound garden 2010 is a sound machine, a water organ, a vertical vegetable garden and a meeting place as a new environmental, social and economical food processor.
The "Jardin sonore ambulant" introduces movement to the garden using an instrument of consumption: the Caddy. The caddy container opens a new way to think about a garden, a new way to reconsider consumption within the city.
About the work: Sound!
Whether this is a noise, a musical idea or material, it is a natural energy as much as a message or social demand. Sound as a strength or music as an identity? Here lies Lucas Grandin´s raw material. The execution in itself assumes various shapes: acoustic or video installations, sound performances, diverted machines, but its foundations always lay on recycling, either material or ideological (copyleft, lowtech). The creation also steps in the assembling of the topics and materials around the concerned object. The creation can be individual, as well as common, creation within artist's collective frameworks (Brouha Aah, Boubagogoth) or one-day groups (Métropolyphone, The fourty-eight hours soundly tools show, Douala feed back...). Against the trend of an idea of art being fragile, precious or mercantile, Grandin´s work lies above all in a playful approach of an ideas meeting.
