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Sound & Interaction — Sonification · Installation · ML

AquiFuturo

Multimedia installation that makes the invisible underground visible — reconstructing a tree's root system and turning it into sound and image.

PythonMax/MSPRAVEJUCE
Work in progress

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Concept

AquiFuturo asks: what if we could sense what is hidden beneath the ground?

At its center is a living tree. Its root system — invisible, underground — is reconstructed from plant modeling data and projected onto the floor beneath the tree. The visitor walks around it and sees what is normally hidden. The root topology also drives the sound: the structure of the roots generates a continuous sonic landscape through a neural audio engine trained on bird recordings.

Three agents co-author the piece: the human visitor, the tree's root architecture, and the AI that translates between them. None could produce it alone.

Technical Detail

  • —Root system reconstructed from functional-structural plant modeling, projected onto the floor via off-axis projection.
  • —Root topology sonified through a neural audio engine (RAVE) trained on bird recordings — the structure of the roots shapes the sound.
  • —Viewer's presence and movement influence both the visual and sonic behavior of the installation.

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AquiFuturo

Multimedia installation that makes the invisible underground visible — reconstructing a tree's root system and turning it into sound and image.

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