Go check out people making music and visuals by connecting synths to plants

Peope are finding new, organic inputs for synthesizers – the patterns of leaves, humidity and climate, and even electricity pulsing through your friendly neighborhood plants. It might be just the kind of Earth connection you need right now.

Sail a Sea of Sound, in Beautiful World of Max Cooper and Tom Hodge

Producer Max Cooper, alongside his collaborator Tom Hodge, this week shares an intimate reflection on what motivates him in sound and science. In the video for Sonos Studio, the Belfast-born musician describes loving when sound “wraps you up in this warm … sea.” But there’s a system that reveals itself, even as the scientific method […]

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2015

An ‘Interspecies’ Music Interface Combines a Mask, Bacteria

Organum Vivum – a interspecies interface from Paul Seidler on Vimeo. Your next digital interface might be grown, not made. Organam Vivum drops the usual combinations of knobs and hard surfaces and wires for something organic – an “interspecies” interface. The sensors are grown from bacteria, formed into alien-looking, futuristic materials and a mask. The […]

Peter Kirn - July 20, 2015

Watch a Hacklab Merge Science and Live Music Technology: MusicMakers

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2015

The Future of Music in Skin and Molecules, Now in Berlin

Peter Kirn - January 23, 2015

Hack Biology, Body, and Music: Open Call for MusicMakers Hacklab

- November 18, 2014

When Plants Jam with Synths: Leslie Garcia’s Open Project Lets Plants Talk with Sound

- March 27, 2013

Of Bees and Oscillators: Bioni Samp’s EP Full of Eco-Influences, Homebrewed Gear [Listen, Gallery]

Peter Kirn - September 3, 2012

From Your Body to Music: Interview with Biophysical Xth Sense Interface Creator

Peter Kirn - March 13, 2012

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