Listening Hour: Amber Stucke, Talking to Plants No. 1 with Dahn Gim

Talking to Plants, 2018-present, is a sound art installation inspired by knowledge of how Ojibwe people talk to plants for medicine as well as by John Cage's works of chance operations and indeterminacy. Each sound piece, lathe cut onto vinyl, responds to two questions: what is the idea of a plant, and how would you talk to it? Two records at a time are played on twin turntables with automatic replay-both running at the same speed.

Curator Anuradha Vikram will also be on hand to discuss the Atmosphere of Sound project and artist Katie Grinnan will activate her sonic sculptures The Sensitives in the gallery. The Sensitives are copper sculptures studded with touch-sensitive oxidizing suckers that play a sequence of tones derived from a fragment of an octopus’ genetic material.

Presented in conjunction with UCLA Art | Sci Center's PST ART: Art & Science Collide exhibition Atmosphere of Sound: Sonic Art in Times of Climate Disruption presented at CAP UCLA.