Saari Residence’s Culture trail makes the invisible audible

Jürgen Buchinger’s artwork The Story of Landscapes is Both Easy and Hard to Tell (2025) collects environmental data from the landscape of Saari Residence. The data has now been transformed into sound and can be listened to here.

Inside the ceramic sculpture, a microprocessor measures temperature, humidity, concentrations of volatile organic compounds, and airborne particles. The work turns these environmental changes into sound, making perceptible the phenomena that occur beyond the scale of human temporal perception.

The artwork is part of Buchinger’s speculative artistic research project Time out of Present, which explores natural sounds and cycles existing beyond immediate human sensory awareness. The project seeks to build new relations with our environment and its inhabitants through sound.

In addition to Buchinger’s work, the Culture Path features Milka Luhtaniemi’s et tiedä menneesi (2025), a two-part poem fragment on marble, and Emilia Sølvsten’s (Denmark/The Netherlands) A Linking Entity (2025), poetry engraved on slate.

The Culture trail is open year-round to all visitors. It is a collaboration between the Saari Residence of Kone Foundation and the Mynämäki Region Nature Conservation Association, where art and nature walk side by side.