Hedgework

Hedgework is an urban landscape intervention that takes the form of a sentient hedgerow. It is a community of native plants and environmental sensors that create a biodiverse habitat that supports the butterflies, bees, birds and squirrels that inhabit it, while engaging the community members, workers, cyclists, pedestrians and others that surround it. 

Hedgework’s soundtrack is a generative electroacoustic piece by composer/musician Robbie Lee, that is influenced by the hyper-local environmental conditions of the site.  Using sensor data from the hedgerow (as well as interactions with wildlife and weather), the music combines moods and events to create a carefully tuned, ever-changing soundworld.  Mark Shepard wrote the code that brought these concepts to life.