Cenk Uygur
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Musicians Found New Source Of Inspiration In Plant Electricity
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March 13, 2022
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Experimental musicians are starting to hook up sensors to plants and mushrooms to hopefully gain inspiration for electronic and synthesizer music. Although the plants aren’t actually making music, attaching electrodes to the plants detects minute changes in the electrical current in different areas of the plant, which can be used as a template for musical notes and other instrumentation. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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“When Stan Smeets posted a video titled “I made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors” to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. “[There’s a] stereotype of synth people loving plants,” one user explained to him.
Stereotype or not, there is a growing community of people who use various sensors connected to plants and mushrooms as inspiration for synthesized music. The results range from scatterings of notes in a strange tempo to fully composed ambient music. Uploaded on Bandcamp, YouTube, and especially TikTok, they can rack up millions of views.
Different artists use the plants in different ways, but everyone I spoke to was pretty clear that the plants are not actually directly making music. The most common way that they contribute to the process is through the use of electrodes, which measure tiny fluctuations in the electrical current between different areas of the plant. That data can then be used as an element of the musical creation process; for example, by translating it into notes within a certain key."
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