Tee Kundu’s Sonic Garden talks to the plants, the soil, the wind, and the light, translating their conversations into music and creating a way for us to engage in play with our non-human relations. It offers us a way to make music together – a little love song, of sorts.

Living inside the Queens Green Community Garden in downtown Kitchener, this installation uses multiple sensors to measure moisture, soil humidity and other data, processing this information into music and noise through code. Having worked as a community-based artist-educator for many years, Kundu recently shifted their teaching practice into more technology-based spaces. It was through teaching folks about conductivity, by playing with accessible materials like paper and copper tape, that the artist started thinking about the movement of energy across connections made in public and community spaces. In particular they began reflecting on the ephemeral history of DIY spaces in the not-so-small and not-quite-big city of Kitchener-Waterloo – the many collaborators and organizers who contribute(d) their energy to sustaining these spaces, as they come in and out of existence. Kundu’s foraged recital Sonic Garden takes place in one such community-organized space, a community garden, inviting visitors to spend time and make music with the garden’s expansive and networked connections with non-human and human friends.