I started doing research of how to make music plants with our current technology.

The first company I found is called ''Plantwave''.
Previously it was named ''MIDI Sprout''

They sell a device that comes with two probes that measure small electrical currents across the surface of a plants leaf.

These plantwave device converts these fluctuations into MIDI notes and controls that can be read by synthesizers and computers. This information can be scaled and played trough synths of used to activate pre-programmed sonic environments

PLANTWAVE

PLAYTRONICA

Playtronica is a Russian based company which produces
the ''TouchMe'' and the ''Playtron''.

They both work with capacitive touch sensors which converts the signals into MIDI.

You can connect the devices trough a USB cable to your computer. They act like a midi device so you can use it with music software (DAW) like Ableton, FL studio Logic etc.

A DJ plays a live set with the playtron. He uses the device to launch loops on Ableton Live.

''TouchMe''

''Playtron''

NATUREBOY FLAKO

You seem to have a love for the natural world, do you think that technology and nature can co-exist? Going forward in time, in your ideal world what would be an ideal way for these two spaces to coexist?

'' I don’t think technology necessarily means not being natural. Technology can be very much in balance with nature since it is mostly just trying to imitate or trying to understand something from within nature. I hope we as humanity will be able to somehow establish a more balanced way of taking and giving, and be more respectful with nature. It feels as if humanity sees itself as the creator of it all, ignoring planet earth as the mother of all life.''

Since 2007 Dario Rojo Guerra has explored a blend of soulful melody and off-the-grid beats, as Flako. Driven by a love of instrumental hip hop. Strongly inspired by the sounds of J-Dilla and Madlib he released ''The Mesektet'' in 2011.

Later in his career, he started experimenting with singing and using his own vocals and he went by the alias Dirg Gerner.

Nowadays he goes by the name Natureboy Flako, his music is strongly inspired by nature and plants.

His latest album just released a few weeks ago and its named:''Ambitus Of Beauty''. For me, he is the modern Mort Garson.

From beginning to the end its a journey trough soundscapes. At the moment he is my biggest inspiration to incorporate plants in my music.

ONYX ASHANTI

Onyx Ashanti is a Detroit based musician, performer, programmer, and inventor of the Sonocyb, a continually evolving, malleable interface of prosthetic synthesizer controllers that Onyx 3D prints at home and uses to articulate electronic sound in conjunction with bodily motion

Truly a pioneer, he did several TED Talks and the earliest ones is from 2011 called: ''This is beatjazz''.

HAINBACH

Hainbach is a Berlin-based artist. He is a musician that makes music in the oddest ways. He uses a lot of sensors and other methods like looping on old cassette tapes. The results are beautiful soundscapes.


In this video, he collaborates with another musician, and they will make music by eating dinner together.

KOMA ELEKTRONIC FIELD KIT

With the Field Kit, you can amplify ordinary objects and use their sounds musically and experimentally. The workstation is optimized to process signals from microphones, contact microphones, and electromagnetic pickups.

It can also receive radio signals and convert signals from switches and sensors into control voltage.

It's possible to transform the raw signals of a variety of sensors with the kit. This means that you can control sound by light, heat, humidity, distance, speed, acceleration, proximity, pressure, force or level.

Trough my research I found out The Field Kit by KOMA Electronics, is the most versatile and whole product to start experimenting with music and plants. It offers a lot for the price and the kit by itself is a workhorse with endless possibilities.

Due to the Crisis my Field kit didn't arrive in time and I couldn't present my experiments on this page. Hopefully, the kit arrives by the start of the next week. For the plus weeks I want to take my project to the test by creating soundscapes with plants.