100 woodblocks create a sonic soundscape in Coker Arboretum

We’re constantly surrounded by streams of sounds: Engines roar, pedestrian signals chirp and the occasional helicopter rumbles. All of these sounds are man-made. Two artists took this idea and implemented it through exactly 100 wirelessly-controlled robotic woodblocks and hammers. Throughout the trees of Coker Arboretum, guests paid unique attention to everyday sounds that play in our lives as music in an installation called murmurations.

Anthony Guerra-Flores reports.