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Brian d'Souza's avatar

loving this album!! thank you

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Chris Barker's avatar

Really enjoyed this!

Random question that occurred to me while reading: to what extent do different species of plant have a "signature"? Is there some way of codifying or distinguishing between the type of impulses you receive from, say, a dandelion when compared to a monstera? Where would we even begin to try to describe this?

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Brian d'Souza's avatar

Hey Chris! Sorry for the delay. I've now experimented with dozens of different plant and fungi species and they are all slightly different. How much this is down to the plant, the water, light, lifecycle is uncertain though.. I did a performance at All Things Fungi with two mushrooms - Lion's Mane and Reishi. The Resihi I had in my studio the day before to practise with, so I knew what it would 'sound' like and assumed the Lion's Mane would be very similar. However, it gave a very different signal, which really threw me during the start of the set! You can start to hear the differences in our Mycorrhizal Fungi release - coming soon :)

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Chris Barker's avatar

Ta for that, fascinating stuff. One of the reasons I asked is that I started to wonder how an encyclopedia or database of plants and their impulses might work. Maybe it's an impossible task given the many variables you described, but would be a fun project if not.

I've got an aloe vera plant that's turned into something monstrous and scary over the 5 years or so that I've kept it. No idea what it'd produce but probably something fairly dark

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Mark David Hadley's avatar

Thanks, interesting read. I've often thought of exploring the biosonification devices and wondered how useful they would be as a sound source, but never quite got to it. Now I can follow all the interesting links in your article to see... thanks.

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Brian d'Souza's avatar

I had thought the same - i think they are one route into connecting with nature but there are plenty of others, including good old field recording! let me know how you get on :)

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Dylan AS's avatar

Great stuff!

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