Saturday 21 May 2022

sonification experiments

 This was another post I "wrote" while ill. Assembled in May 2023 and backdated.

Sonification, it says. Just that one word. On a page ripped out of a Saturday supplement with Skunk Anansi answering some questions and half an article about people translating bio-emissions of plants into sound. 

So yes -- the article includes some bits from Mileece and her plant sounds and mushroom collaborations.


That one's a bit experimental, so worth showing you the hypnotic and accessible output of Plantwave too. Hold on till later in the collaborative composition for some lovely tonal variations.


Finally we come to MycoLyco, who collaborates with Cordyceps.


Listening to the deeper world of your garden, I was thinking. Could I do that? 

Then my partner asked for a Soma Labs Ether for his birthday, and we ended up going for walks, listening to all kinds of things. Dams, substations, weirs, cable boxes. Pavements were surprisingly rich soundscapes. Drains sounded amazing!

We called the device Lady Ether and got her to introduce the band.