A plant? It’s an ultra sensitive biochemical network that could be made to sing, hoot, shout, and that with only a few well located captors and adequate stimuli.
Come to think of it, it might be of some interest to hear about the vegetal world’s opinion on our contemporary lifestyle. Indeed, some of them do experience it on a day to day basis: the ficus, for example, watches television, attends environmental conferences with multimedia projections, or more. Plastic artists Peter Keene and Piet.sO have set up a bio-sound lab, equipped with three biospheres in which ficuses are to be studied mostly via their reactions to several stimuli representing our urban environment. The plants are isolated in spheres that control their light, water, and soil supply; captors transform their biochemical changes into electric impulses which — with the use of a synthesiser — become sounds; the plants thus play — the sounds of — their own answers to the stress we are all faced with.