Kristin Robinson Kristin Robinson

The Night I Listened to a Plant Sing

A few nights ago, long after I should have been asleep, I found myself lost in a late-night YouTube scroll and landed on a channel called Bio Music Vibrations. I clicked on a video out of curiosity. And then I stayed.

The music is created from the bioelectrical activity of living plants. Sensors read subtle electrical signals from the plant and translate them into sound in real time through synthesizers.

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