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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22922189\/plant-music-sythesizers<\/a>
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When Stan Smeets posted a video titled \u201cI made a synthesizer that plays plant-based music using microscopes and sensors\u201d to a synthesizer Reddit group, the users thought it was funny that he had stumbled into a meme. \u201c[There\u2019s a] stereotype of synth people loving plants,\u201d one user<\/a> explained to him.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>, YouTube<\/a>, and especially TikTok<\/a>, they can rack up millions of views.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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