Listening with Edible Plants in Sonic Art

This autoethnographic article reflects on artistic practice investigating how edible plants sense sound and the political and philosophical considerations that come into play, underlining the pertinence of this practice in addressing critical social-ecological topics in contemporary sonic art such as biodiversity, listening biases, Otherness and empathy. The article navigates a series of sonic artworks concerning beets and rhubarb, emphasising the philosophical and technological considerations emerging when listening to them and other species.