Lifetime of a Flower

Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke created the installation Lifetime of a Flower for the Dortmund exhibition Flowers in 20th and 21st Century Art. In it they set parameters, but allowed the process itself to literally grow uncontrollably: they planted seeds in the garden of their Japanese house and filmed as the plants grew for the duration of the exhibition. Visitors were able to watch the stream in real time, while listening to a composition that reflected the organic process in sound. This eponymous recording, now available on LP, is an enigmatic and sophisticated layering of sounds, melodies and rhythms, noises from everyday life, all of which are repositories of associations, memories and expectations
All music was composed by Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke for the video exhibition/installation ”Lifetime of a Flower“ at Loudspeaker/Museum Ostwall at Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany, April 30th to September 25th 2022. Project idea and realization by Jan Lankisch. Additional editing by Jim O’Rourke. Mastering by Jörg Burger. Gema. Special thanks to Julian Klein for the tech setup. Illustration by Sharmila Banerjee. Design by Sonja Knoblauch