The fourth week of features a video by Alison O’Daniel: The Tuba Thieves – Scene 55: The Plants Are Protected (2015), which is available from Tuesday 27 April until Monday 3 May.

The Plants are Protected is part of Alison O’Daniel’s complex, gradually unfolding film project The Tuba Thieves. For this project, O’Daniel reverses the usual process of filmmaking by inviting composers to make scores that inform the story and process.
The Plants are Protected responds to a sound score made by artist Christine Sun Kim. A man drives a moving truck during a rainstorm. In the cargo of the truck, plants begin to shake and vocalise, becoming a chorus.
Captions describe the actual sound, but also offer other narrative possibilities and refer to the original references provided to Kim by O’Daniel, elements of her score, and discussions the two artists had while making the score.
View here.
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Image description: A variety of plants: orange, green, purple and pink succulents, cacti and tropical plants are stacked on cardboard boxes and situated on a wooden floor inside of the cargo of a moving van truck. The truck has a translucent bright white ceiling, letting in sunlight and two panels of maroon and red cover part of the wall toward the back right of the truck. Wood and metal beams run along the walls parallel to the floor and ceiling. The image is framed by black widescreen bars above and below. In the bottom widescreen bar, yellow text in all caps and brackets reads: [PLANT 1 – MMM, MMMMMMMM, MMMM, MM].
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