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Quiet Storm: Music for Insects

PROTIBERIA x Samuel Van Ransbeeck

SUMMARY

The A.I. Harvesting Community project by Georg Kettele and Logiqs B.V. aims to explore and advance the capabilities of the CEM unit developed by Logiqs. To bring this technology to market, production costs per square meter must be reduced to meet global industry standards. A monitoring system is also essential to accurately track the growth process, with collected data playing a key role in ongoing optimisation efforts.

Alongside improving Logiqs’ CEM technology, the project will develop a smaller-scale, open-source version that individuals can build using accessible components. This DIY unit will be supported by detailed video instructions and publicly shared construction plans. Community feedback will be actively integrated into the development process, contributing to the creation of growing systems that are more resource-efficient and offer sustainable food solutions on a global scale.

“Nature listens in ways we are only beginning to understand. Let’s tune in the future of sustainability.” Samuel Van Ransbeeck’s proposal integrates sonification and soundscape composition. His strong background on agriculture projects will support Protiberia’s challenge on improving reproduction and mating process of Tenebrio molitor. This collaboration born thanks to Hungry Ecocities consists in making music for and from this sustainable healthy reared insect. This way, we will implement sound as a way to improve the yielding of the mealworm and connect people to insect rearing in a pleasant way.”

Victoria Giráldez Sánchez – R&D researcher PROTIBERIA

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Samuel Van Ransbeeck

Belgium

Samuel van Ransbeeck is a sound artist and researcher. His main interests are sonification, soundscape composition, and digital humanities. His work is interdisciplinary and collaborative, always looking for new ways of expression. He has worked at several universities and research institutions around the world, like the University of Manchester, The Getúlio Vargas Foundation, INESC, and more. He has been the recipient of several large grants for art and research projects, such as the Mediafutures.eu programme to develop Mumidis in collaboration with uTrigg, a Brazilian government grant for talented researchers, and his PhD grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Recently, he completed FarmSonics, an EU-funded S+T+ARTS project to sonify agricultural data.”

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PROTIBERIA

Insect farming

Albacete, SPAIN

Logiqs is an expert in mobile growing systems. These are systems where the production of plants is done on benches that move between one, or more growing Protiberia is a biotechnology company that transforms organic vegetable waste into ingredients for the agri-food sector using insects, applying cutting-edge technology and innovative production processes.​

The HungryEcoCities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement 101069990.