Kleos Doramas

do not work yet on mobile devices, try accessing it from a computer to play loops with the keyboard... 😬

This musical piece belongs to the proyect: Kleos

Everything is interaction (Alexander von Humboldt)

Kleos Doramas allows you to listen to the musical memory of the plants around you and weave them together through your walk through Doramas Park in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Each plant in Doramas has an associated fragment of traditional music from the geographical area where it originally comes from, which is activated and increases in volume as you approach it.

To compose this open work that you can interpret with your movement, 42 musical fragments from around the world have been used, without changing their original tones, making only some tempo adjustments to connect them with each other. You can control in the app settings the number of plants you want to listen to at the same time and also increase the listening radius to include more distant plants.

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Collage made with fragments of images from the discs used in the musical piece and from the web, fragments of botanical illustrations of Doramas species and from the book 'Histoire Naturelle des Iles Canaries' by Philip Barker Webb and Sabino Berthelot. The collage represents in its layers the proportion of the origins of the species in the park by regions of the world, inspired by the illustrations of vegetation floors made by Alexander Von Humboldt in his research in the Canary Islands.

The sound piece for Kleos Doramas is composed with 43 musical fragments from different regions of the world, and its general character reflects the predominance of plant species of American and African origin in the park, as well as the presence of many species from Oceania as well as endemic species from the Canary Islands.

For this KLEOS intervention we have woven a story for each musical fragment, connecting their cultural histories with the botanical stories of the species with which they are associated. The stories are organized by regions of the world.

You can install the app 'Kleos Cristina Enea' on your cell phone and walk through the park to explore the musical piece and the stories and data associated with the plant species, as well as information about the project. In the app options you can control the listening radius and the number of plants (loops) you want to listen to at a time. By clicking on the species that sound on the map you can see what they are and access their botanical data and see more info about the associated piece of music.

Musical stories and sources

App