Last June, Biotic Symphony took part in the in.jer.to festival, held in Torre del Mar (Málaga). The project was brought to the festival by MolinoLab, who presented it in two different formats: an interactive installation and a live performance.
An interspecies installation
The first experience was an interactive interspecies installation that invited the audience to explore the relationship between nature, technology, and artistic creation.
A 3D-designed structure, 3D-printed with reusable filament, served as a vessel for three living plants. Through sensors, the plants’ electrical impulses were translated into solo instruments within a real-time sound composition.
But the experience went beyond sound: those same impulses also shaped a virtual simulation —a digital clone of several real spaces reconstructed using the gaussian splatting technique—, creating visual alterations that evolved in sync with the plants’ activity.
The audience became active participants in the piece thanks to an organic interface: by touching different objects, they could contribute both to the sound composition and to the distortions of the virtual scene. An immersive experience where the human, the vegetal, and the digital intertwined in a shared creative ecosystem.
Savia bruta: the performance
MolinoLab’s second contribution to the festival was the performance Savia bruta, presented in several sessions during the night of June 6th at the Tres Puertas cultural space. Here, sonic and visual research transformed into a live act, charged with energy, amplifying the dialogue between nature and technology.
Savia Bruta is a multidisciplinary, interspecies performance that transports us to a futuristic reality where humanity, trapped in routine and automatism, has unwittingly ceded its autonomy to plants. These plant entities, in apparent stillness, have woven a secret network of reciprocity: in exchange for allowing humans to dream—the only space where they can still experience freedom—they lead them towards their own dreams. In these dreamlike landscapes, humans become emissaries of plant life, travelling through symbolic worlds and wild memories to fulfil an urgent mission: to find a crack in the asphalt of the world, a fissure through which life can emerge.
Fusing dance, visual art, plant-based electrical impulses, interactive devices and live music, Savia Bruta unfolds a sensory ritual where the boundaries between species, dream and wakefulness, concrete and roots dissolve. An evocation of the resilience of greenery and a call to remember that, even in the most barren of settings, life persists.
It was a great pleasure for us to share with the festival team. We were welcomed like family and felt right at home.
Special thanks to the 3 Puertas team for their hospitality, support and trust.
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