Oalco

Oalco is an electro-botanical sound installation presented in 2022 on the occasion of the Mapping Festival and the Night of the Museum in the garden of the Museum of Art and History in Geneva, Switzerland.

Oalco sound art installation by Xavier Gazon geneva museum
Oalco sound art installation by Xavier Gazon geneva museum

Oalco is an electro-botanical sound art
sculpture in an immersive quadraphonic acoustic space.

Oalco sound art installation by Xavier Gazon geneva museum

The installation reproduces the electrical activity of the plant

to which it is connected as well as a part of

its environment thanks to various integrated sensors :



temperature

luminosity

humidity

Oalco is therefore an installation of botanical generative music