plant music / grey garden home

va ~ plant music: a leafy listening compilation (dublab, 2015)

"nurture nature with dublab’s Plant Music! these songs were composed by dublab’s favorite musicians with growth of leafy friends in mind. Plant Music is a dublab Proton Drive exclusive so when you pick this up you will not only be helping plants to grow, but you will also cultivate dublab’s positive music mission."

1. a&r ~ weeping willow

 2. alejandro cohen ~ remembering
3. carmen villain ~ blomic
4. dexter story ~ mahogany
5. dntel ~ ficus sheen
6. ethio cali ~ green tej
7. golden hits ~ for the ferns
8. suneye ~ sprout
9. impa quince ~ i bloom when you bloom
10. j d emmanual ~ texas star plant
11. jp jenkins ~ cactus conciousness
12. mary lattimore ~ david green
13. matthewdavid ~ electronic dream plant
14. prints ~ vision
15. rainbow arabia ~ succulent
16. t.e.a.l. ~ moss
17. vitamin wig c ~ rose power

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va ~  グレーガーデン ホーム (grey garden home compilation) (onmyōdō cassette, 2015)

opaline, sunmoonstar, sleepland, aeki takashi, ...

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filed under: i wanna be leaf

naran ratan

naran ratan ~ trees etc. (tasty morsels, 2015)

"tasty morsels jam club just added 11 minutes and 11 seconds of spiritual jazz miniatures, garden music, beginner clarinet jams etc to our archive. it's all a big ode to nature and so on and makes good background music probably. it is called "trees etc." and was created by our weird friend, naran ratan, some time ago. on behalf of naran ratan, here given, phrased mainly in Spirit Quest, is a quite quiet journey, dedicated to oldest friends and nearby shrubbery."

composition: n ratan 

keyboard: n ratan 

clarinet: n ratan 

'e' guitar: simone 

art: 'bath' by r. mccarthy 

otherwise: n ratan

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david edren

 david edren ~ music for mimosa pudica & codariocalyx (earth rope pot plant, 2015)

"When Sigrid Volders & Narelle Dore asked me to make a musical mix for the presentation of their project "Earth.Rope.Pot.Plant", i immediately thought of the "Plantasia" album by Mort Garson, who is one of my favourite electronic composers. Little did i know, i soon discovered, although truly amazing, it is just one of many plant-related albums. Roger Roger, that other pioneer of electronic library music, made "De La Musique et Des Secrets Pour Enchanter vos Plantes" in 1978, a remarkable album which, like the Mort Garson album, also included a booklet with enchanting text and pictures. For me, discovering more and more, it all began to form into this greater spiral of interest. I saw the film "The Secret Life Of Plants" and this documentary called "Mind Of Plants" by Jacques Mitsch (Arte 2009). 

After which i immediately obtained some codariocalyx and mimosa pudica seeds; both known as the dancing and sensitive plants respectively. I really wanted to start growing these plants myself. When the first seedlings popped up, in my head a plan began to grow. You get emotionally attached to plants, watering them at specific times and taking care of them every day; something that was new to me, really. After the codario was already grown quite a bit, i started placing a little speaker next to it and play it gentle electronic sounds. The littlest leaves would start twitching and turning right after these waves of sound would come out of the speaker. As for the mimosa pudica, it was rather obvious from the beginning this was a very sensitive being; The slightest touch or breeze would set off it's receptors, folding up it's leaves one by one and even branches collapsing towards it's roots. I was mesmerized! As an ode to these two botanical beings, i decided to make sounds which are gathered here on the attached cd. Enjoy." David Edren / DSR Lines

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 buy cd attached to the book 'earth rope pot plant' by Sigrid Volders and Narelle Dore

data garden

data garden ~ live at the switched​-​on garden 002 (data garden, 2013)

"On October 14, 2012 more than 1,200 participants joined us to wander Bartram’s Garden and connect with their natural environment through live music, performance and sculpture that blurred the distinction between biological and digital worlds, exploring the relationship between plants, music and technology. 

Sounds by Tim Eads, Austen Brown, Joe Patitucci, Alex Tyson, Sam Cusumano, Dan Scofield, Patrick Proctor, Steven Litt, Leslie Zacharkow, Kyle Stetz, Klip Collective, Laura Baird, Allen Crawford, Dino Lionetti, Gretchen Lohse, King Britt, Pia Ercole and Spaceship Aloha (Christopher Sean Powell)."

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mort garson

 mort garson ~ mother earth's plantasia (homewood, 1976)

"Warm earth music for plants...
and the people who love them."

"The overall feel of this Mort Garson's album is playful, with psychedelic Moog melodies sprinkled over swinging drum machines and basslines. Basically, the exact kind of stuff you want at your next sci-fi cocktail party, not at your weekly home gardeners meeting. The album was given out free with the purchase of a Simmon’s mattress at Sears in 1976, and as a bonus, came with extensive instructions on plant care. " James Pants

  

“It has been proven beyond any doubt that harmonic waves affect the growth, flowering and seed yield of plants.” ~ Dr. T.C. Singh, Department of Botany, Annamalai University (India)

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