GREENSOUNDSWORLD
The artist and plant ambassador Cassis B Staudt makes plants “sing”. The sound is produced through biodata sonification. To do this, electrodes are attached to the leaves of the plant. The electrodes transmit electrical impulses from the plant, which are generated during photosynthesis, by touch or by adding water, for example. The signals can be fed with pre-produced “notes” via synthesizers, samplers and other midi instruments. The first musical fragments obtained in this way can now be transformed into individual compositions. A wide variety of projects have been created on this basis.
The energy (meaning the bio-chemical process in the plant) is really translated into music. These musical fragments are spontaneous, individual compositions of the plant:
a green sounds world
The sound artist and composer Cassis B Staudt studied music at the Staatl. Musikhochschule Hamburg and during her 24-year stay in New York at Juilliard University. As a producer in Jim Jarmusch's team, she received the Palme d'Or for one of the short films 'Coffee and Cigarettes' and had the idea and wrote music for the Oscar-nominated film 'Ferry Tales'. In 2014 she moved to Berlin and in 2020 began to make plants audible through various Neustart Kultur grants from Musikfonds, GEMA, Dt. Musikrat involving various sensors via the process of bio data sonification.
Film music is her profession and plant music her vocation. For years she has been working on a climate symphony in which the plants take center stage. They always sound different depending on the plant species, condition and interaction with humans.
As part of the SEZ/EU funding mindchangers, Cassis B worked with the Argentinian choreographer Liliana Tasso on a plant art performance in Buenos Aires in 2023, which was taken up again in southern Germany and presented at the mindchangers future impact summit. In 2024, she successfully offered plant music sustainability walks on two weekends at cemeteries via the Treptow district office. In 2024, Cassis' plant music received a lot of attention from the press (taz, BZ, das Magazin, Sat1 Frühstücksfernsehen). Recently she wrote the score for
‘WILMA WILL MEHR’. Further information, as well as audio and video clips, can be found on Cassis B Staudt's homepage:
EVENTS 2026
Parc Floral de Vincennes PARIS
Micro World
Photos:
Dr. Jan Schmoranzer
Contact:
Green sounds world ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com
CASSIS B
PHOTOS: NICOLA MARIA HOCHKEPPEL, Anna Christian Beuermann, Steve Braun, Stefan Röhl, Carlos Santos
work in progress 2023-2027:
Suse Weber: “Composition for a school bell - open composition and integrated tool at the same time”,
Public Art, Düsseldorf
Sound production through biodata- sonification or: plants can sing in close collaboration with Studio Cassis B.
2020 Climate Symphony, grant: Neustart Kultur, Musikfonds
2021 Climate Symphony, grant: Neustart Kultur, GEMA
2022 Plant Music Film ‘Call me by my name!, Neustart Kultur, DKV
2023 artist in residence Aug-Sept BHROX bauhaus reuse with
Sustainable plant music walks @ Ernst-Reuter-Platz, Berlin
Funded by Kulturbeirat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
2023 Plant Music as part of vivas!, mind changers/SEZ,
Buenos Aires / Southern Germany
2024-2025: Over 100 events with plant music. Highlights:
- 01/26 Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Berlin, Fest der Agrarwende, concert with an audience of 900
- 12/25 Kunstverein Göppingen, A Day in the Museum Kunsthalle, concert & installation
- 11/25 Retreat in Sicily: plant music & storytelling.
- 09/25 Munich, Eine Welt Haus, concert with reading ’The Sounds of Life (Karen Bakker)
- 09/25 concert with rescued food, Intercultural Weeks, GP
- 09/25 Tourismboard Isny: Kulturpedale, plant music concerts
- 08/25 plant music walk, Wiesbaden Kulturpark
- 07/25 Workshop, Klimatak, Berlin
- 2025: 50 plant music sustainable walks through cemeteries, Berlin (Kulturförderung) including two podcasts together with chrifin
- 06/25 Langer Tag der Stadtnatur, Berlin
- 05/26 Minibooth, Berlin, plant music, electronics for kids & young adults
- 2025/2026 Over 80 shows, kids musical theatre with plant music
- 10/24 cemeteries, Treptow, Berlin, plant music sustainable walks
- 06/24 Botanical Garden, Marburg, collaboration with chrifin, Quits
- 2023-2025: plant music studio as part of Suse Weber: public art: ‘school bell’ incl. 2025 Bauhaus University Weimar, Listening to Grass @ Gauforum, Weimar
2026:
- Heinrich Böll Stiftung: Fest der Agrarwende
- Spring Equinox Sound Bath
- in development: culture grant Neukölln: Kiezklang with Hadmut Bittiger: plantmusic, performance @Schloss Britz 05/30+31
