"Sound Cactus" by Adrienne Adar

Adar, who lives and works in LA, studied photography and new media in New York and has been exhibiting her work and curating that of others across the world in a huge range of shows ever since. By connecting them to small speakers, Adar transforms potted cacti and succulents into musical instruments that release pops, crackles, beats and strums when touched by human hands. The Sonic Succulents not only invite people to touch the spines of cacti, but also to imagine the silent sounds the plants are making when being caressed and question our audio visual and sensory relationship with plant-life. "By using sound to further activate the plant's alive qualities, our relationship to them is heightened," Adar says. "I have constructed a sensor that translates the touching of a plant into being able to hear what it is physically feeling on the inside when it is being touched or affected by wind, rather than what we usually hear when we hear leaves rustle in the wind for example."

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