The work consists of several objects and images of very different origin. The natural plant is placed next to a dismantled tape recorder, on shelves are the tools and objects of research on display, a pile of paper with digital codes is placed under a growing lamp. The visitor is invited to take part in a live process: the sound of a tape containing Antonio Vivaldis The Four seasons, changes and deteriorates every day due to the iron particles falling down while running through the machine. A plant grows, extremely slow under a growing lamp, a person carefully takes off the layer of a magnetic tape.

 

All these actions are not stunning or spectacular in themselves, they seem to be part of a daily routine of a scientific research. But the aim of the research is not a clear result or message. This research creates a doubt which raises in the mind of the public: why does a plant need metal to grow? Why does the music disappear?

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In 'The Original Arrangement was for a Solo Violin and a String Orchestra', iron hyper-accumulating grass were cultivated in the scraped of iron from a reel-to-reel tape with The Four Seasons. During a longer period of time the plants extracted the orchestral information, before the plants subsequently was dried and incinerated in an oven. The remaining iron-containing ash were then glued back to the original tape and played. In the installation the visitor could observe the process and listen to the plants interpretation of the music.

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