Awesome way to create music, and impressive putting this together with no set BPM to work with. Making synth music with plants and not calling any of the tracks Photosynthesis seems like a missed opportunity though!

Very cool, Burr!! My wife also got me a Pocket Scion for Christmas 😆 nice drumming 😎 and very awesome use of Pocket Scion!

This is incredible, I love it

We have FAWM accounts for pets, you should've created one for your plant! 😀

This is lovely, etheral and spacey. Ironically it's the drums that ground the song, not the plant! It looks like you had fun!

I wonder how it sounds in the dark? Or just after it has been watered? Or if you could rummage down and attach an electrode to a root? Or if you go into a garden and put on electrode on one plant and the other on its neighbour, allowing the network of underground fungal hyphae to be musical intermediary?

I finally remembered to come and give this a listen after being intrigued by your description of what the Scion does over in the Slack chat. This sounds even better than the version I'd imagined in my head. Like, WAY better, It's beautiful. Did you jam along with the plant, or add the drums and stuff afterwards?

Badass! What an awesome, trippy, thrilling, SFF collaboration!

What a vibe. When you describe the process, I imagined challenge and chaos, but it sounds like it was intended. And you're spotlighting (maybe) the most wonderful thing about making music: the communion between living things. You're clearly reacting to them... and maybe they're reacting to you (as cohabitants). I'm ready to believe in the Secret Life of Plants.

This may be the most out of the box album idea ever put up on FAWM. The live drums as the accompaniment is actually a really cool choice given the timing issues but I guess playing with a melody instrument or bass would have had harmony issues that were even more likely to clash.

This seems like really fertile soil for further ideas! I certainly wouldn’t vine hearing more!

Rad AF!! I have so many questions… the former electrophysiologist in me is wondering is this like a surface EKG, measuring large scale ionic currents or is it detecting specific groups of ion channels? It’s kind of amazing to me that plants have enough electrical activity to pick up given they have no musculature, but the various tropisms of growth must be enough. I hope this is not the last in this collab series, it is so fascinating

Some interesting gear. I like the synth textures... just wondering how plantscape sounds together with slothcore...

I feel bamboo palm, should have their own account and be credited for their contributions . . . . . but outstanding peace of work!

Any living organism? So, like, oh I dunno, a hamster...? Could Song Hamster actually sing? 🤔

Srsly tho, this looks and sounds like an incredible piece of kit. I can see how the lack of clock data would be frustrating, but what a way of developing sound art and evolving pads! Really interested to see what you hook it up to next...

Man, that was cool. #plantscape should be a genre. I think having all the sounds coming from the CZ-1 made it sound coherent despite the chaos coming from the plant. The drum groove didn't sound forced, and imposed a nice bit of order as well. I guess you could have rhythm quantized the MIDI but you'd probably lose something.

So many questions. Do different plants have different personalities? What do animals sound like? Do mushrooms sound more like plants or more like animals? I wonder what happens if you play a bunch of marching band music at the plant before recording - does it train some rhythm into it? 😂

What an amazing idea, and to have video too! That's rad. You just have to get into the plant zone, and it appears you did. You could do a whole album. I'm curious to hear how succulents sound.

… this is cool as hell. I wish I could say something more about intelligent about it other than I really like it and I’m delighted that this is a collaboration with a houseplant.