Mileece, a London-based artist who makes excellent experimental ambient music under her own name for labels like Fat Cat, managed to coax plant life into producing some really beautiful sounds.
To do this, she connected the plants to a generative SuperCollider patch using customized hardware. When the plants produce a signal, presumably via some sort of electrode (I'm working on it figuring this out), they stimulate thereal time audio synthesis software to create the music heard in these recordings.
Her plants aren't writing the music from the ground up, so to speak, since a lot of it is contained in the patch. But they definitely have a hand – er, sprig – in its formation.
(thanks, manny, who is looking for a bassist for his pixies cover band; image from myspace)
