Band of Weeds is a collective formed in 2016 that makes music and sound art in collaboration with plants. The band’s members are visual artist Kalle Hamm (s. 1969), poet and sound artist Olli Aarni (s. 1988), musician and writer Lauri Ainala (s. 1982) and visual artist Hermanni Keko (s.1987), who compose music out of recorded plant sounds.
Using a method of converting electro-magnetic impulses in plant tissue into a sound range audible to the human ear, Band of Weeds combines more-than-human voices in a unique chorus of ‘plant song’.
Band of Weeds seeks to raise awareness of a phenomenon known as plant blindness, the Western tendency to underestimate plants as a lower class of living beings and to view them purely as exploitable commodities.
Photo: Juho Liukkonen