Currently, the "Ikebana Speaker," a cutting-edge technology that plays music from plants, is installed on the second floor of the Nicolai Bergmann Flowers & Design flagship store in Aoyama, Tokyo.

This "Ikebana Speaker" is a plant-based sound-generating device developed by inventor Keiji Koga based on a comment a friend made as a boy: "I wish I could hear sounds from the leaves..." By attaching a vibration device to the stem of a plant and vibrating the leaves, the plant becomes a speaker and produces sound. The plant used in this project is the kaakakuriko, a plant native to East Asia and Australia. "We also tried it with banana leaves, but the kaakakuriko, with its large leaves and straight veins, produces the loudest sound," Koga explains.

Using this "Ikebana Speaker," a "musical botanical garden" has been created on the second floor of the Nicolai Bergmann Flowers & Design flagship store. The plant life in the botanical garden, supervised by Nicolai Bergmann, will play a new song called "Photosynthesis #1," which was created by music producer Shinichi Osawa and his private orchestra project, Thousand Tears Orchestra, for the event. The event will be open to the public from 10:00 to 19:00 on March 1st to 3rd.