The Eternal Garden in a Bottle

“The Eternal Garden in a Bottle” unfolds across five chapters—Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, and finally Utopia. Each chapter’s light rhythm, ecological behavior, and sonic expression are generated in real time. The system continuously computes and reshapes the environment: light, color palettes, species populations, and environmental tempo all shift according to the sonic interactions of both performers and visitors. The audience enters a world that breathes, grows, and flows.

The musicians’ improvisational performances are transformed into signals that influence the ecosystem—plants sprout, flocks of birds rise, and life forms shift in response. At the same time, the ecosystem’s feedback generates abstract scores that become new material for the musicians’ improvisation. These abstract scores are presented through LG’s transparent display technology, extending the boundary where the virtual and physical intertwine.

Through this cyclical exchange between humans and the system, the digital ecosystem sustains itself, making each performance a unique ecological rhythm shaped by musicians and audience alike.

Visitors can also interact directly with the installation. Ten specially curated instruments allow simple gestures to influence the growth and decline within the ecological bottle. An interactive webpage further invites visitors to create a personalized spirit creature and release it into the ecosystem, contributing sound and movement as part of the ongoing digital cycle.

The exhibition space enhances this immersive experience through a curved wooden wall that extends an organic contour, evoking the feeling of standing inside a bottle. White silica sand reflects projected imagery with greater clarity and fluidity, responding to the idea of an ever-shifting ecosystem. Together, light, sound, texture, and form create a multisensory environment—one that can be seen, heard, and felt.