Immersive PlantWave Performance at SXSW 2023

video upload by Lightbath

"Revisit my immersive PlantWave performance at SXSW 2023 where I used real-time plant biodata to animate carefully designed musical systems in my modular synthesizer and computer. Held in Data Garden's Plant Music Lounge, this concert of guided generative music was an interspecies collaboration between myself and four houseplants.

✶ PATCH NOTES ✶

Get detailed patch notes of the Eurorack and computer/controllers setup I used for the performance on Patreon. A Patreon membership gives you access to my private Club Lightbath Discord community, educational resources archive, plus optional group and one-on-one lessons through my Creative Mentorship program → https://patreon.com/lightbath

✶ THANK YOU ✶

Thanks to Data Garden and @PlantWave for making this event a reality. Thanks to Robbie Tharp for the beautiful cinematography.

Continued thanks to @BlackmagicDesignOfficial for the 6K Pro we used as well as @HosaTechnology for the cables that connect all the things and @djtechtools for the MIDI Twister that gave me such fine knobs for interacting with the computer 🙏

All modules + music gear in this video → https://lightbath.zone/sxsw-pw
Audio + Video gear → https://lightbath.zone/new-video-kit"

[SOUNDMIT 2022] CLATTERSMACHINE POCKET GARDEN LISTENER - Transducteur musical de plantes vertes

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"Michelangelo nous parle de son transducteur pour plantes vertes, qui permet de transformer les signaux biologiques d'une plante verte en des notes MIDI. Plus d'infos : https://clattersmachines.com/prodotto..."

"Michelangelo tells us about his transducer for green plants, which transforms the biological signals of a green plant into MIDI notes. More info: https://clattersmachines.com/prodotto..."

"The Pocket Garden Listener is a portable random control messages generator from biometric signals and it’s meant to be the compact and desktop version of our Garden Listener eurorack module.

It detects conductivity variations on living beings’ surface and transforms them into MIDI notes, ranging from C-1 to C8, and CV signals (0 – 5V). Its behavior can be tamed through the one-knob menu from which you can choose and modify:

probes’ sensitivity (making it more or less sensitive to current variations);
scale (chromatic, major, minor, indian and arabic);
MIDI channel (1 – 16);
LEDs’ brightness.
USB powered.

MIDI data are simultaneously transferred:

via USB, to control DAW plugins and sequences;
via TRS, to control any other gear with a MIDI port;
Equipped with Trigger, Gate and Control Voltage to control modular and semi-modular gear.

Conductivity variations are detected by the Probes Input and converted into MIDI notes in real time according to the Main menu settings. Each MIDI note exits through the MIDI output and the USB, allowing you to take advantage of the sound of either any synthesizer equipped with a MIDI port or any VST in your DAW, and gets converted into an analog signal.

Trigger and Gate are fired every time a new note is generated (5V).

All the MIDI notes are converted into variable voltages (0 – 5V) depending on their pitch and exit through the CV output (1V/oct)."

Data Garden PlantWave - galvanic MIDI hardware 1st demo/experiments

video by SynthAddict

Little plant playing music.

"PlantWave converts measured plant (or any other organism's) galvanic resistance over time between 2 points to MIDI, like biofeedback devices (galvanic skin response in animals). Enjoy the experiments. A few synths were used in the demo.

I experiment with lights and wavelengths, as well as a simple impromptu chaotic jams at the end with a plant bandmate. :-)

The PlantWave mobile app has onboard synth presets & other features, but this demo is only for MIDI hardware.

Galvanic refers to Luigi Galvani, who was an 18th century physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher - considered the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics.

00:00​ PlantWave inro, hookups, etc.
01:24​ First connection & sound demo
01:48​ Light demos and theory
03:43​ Sound demo 2 with lights
05:30​ Touch demo
06:04​ Sound patch change
07:03​ Plant change
08:10​ Human/plant improv live jam"

Data Garden Announces Release of PlantWave: A Device That Lets Plants Sing

From the creators of MIDI Sprout.

"Data Garden is launching PlantWave, a consumer device that allows plants to play music in real time from phones, tablets, and computers. Having establishing itself as a leader at the intersection of plants, music, and technology, Data Garden’s new hardware allows people to pair their plants to mobile devices via Bluetooth and listen to them produce music in real time. “We’re really excited to offer this new product. We’ve received so much feedback from our users about what they’d like to see and we’re happy to deliver it all in one package as PlantWave,” says Jon Shapiro, CTO.

The Kickstarter launches on Tuesday September 24th. “We’re so inspired by the talent of our community of users and we’re excited to provide a platform for them to explore and share the potential of this technology through public art,” explains Joe Patitucci, Founder and COO

The goal for the Kickstarter is $100k. Users can pre-order PlantWave for $220 as well as donate to the cause for a plethora of interesting rewards that range from boutique products to in-person experiences in LA.

Since 2011, Data Garden has reached thousands of nature enthusiasts and trendy lifestyle hobbyists. Through their first hardware product, MIDI Sprout, they formed a passionate community centered around listening to plants. PlantWave incorporates user feedback and update requests into a simple, easy to use product that runs on iOS and Android devices. The mechanics of the device are simple. Two sensors monitor the fluctuations of electrical conductivity of a plant’s leaf. PlantWave then translates these fluctuations into digital messages that control instruments in a mobile app.

Website (Will re-direct to Kickstarter page on September 24th):
http://www.plantwave.com"

FOUR TRACKS, 116 MINUTES OF PLANT-GENERATED MUSIC


"We all think we know what nature sounds like. It’s birds chirping, wind through trees, thunder echoing through the valley. These are all sounds that come from physical phenomena in nature, producing waves perceivable by the human ear: the need to mate, currents of air and water, static electricity. There are other phenomena in our natural environment, however, that produce information which we cannot perceive through our biological senses.

The course of human history has been moving towards advanced technology which enhances our ability to observe the world beyond these senses. As stone tools were a way for us to expand our physical strength, electronic tools expand our ability to perceive in real-time.

Digital technology has become a natural extension of our human senses. With it, we are not just gaining the ability to observe new information. We are revealing new patterns of creative expression. These revelations raise questions about our own place in a Universe filled with natural elegance. What is the creative force of the Universe? Is the force that inspires a human to write poetry the same as that which inspires a plant to grow in a particular way?

The musical compositions you are about to listen to are being generated by the electronic impulses produced by four tropical plants. This data, interpreted by humans with the help of computers, has been employed to organize sound into beauty perceivable by the human ear. While the means of producing this beauty can be described in technical terms, the natural creative force generating this experience is less apparent.

We invite you to explore Data Garden: Quartet while examining your own views on the source of its creation.
credits
released May 1, 2012

Joe Patitucci (Tadoma): sound design, editing
Sam Cusumano: electronics / engineer
Alex Tyson: sound design and editing on intro, graphic design

Philodendron plant: Lead synthesizer
Schefflera plant #1: Rhythm Tone Generator
Schefflera plant #2: Bass synthesizer
Snake Plant: Ambience and effects"

CCTV-Quadtec 101 Digital dual quadraphonic oscillator first sound

Published on Aug 8, 2019 Dziam Bass

"Today I have the first sound from the Quadtec 101 digital dual oscillator.

This is a module offering a quadraphone, but initially I did not use the full show when I wave through the pan placing it on the speakers. this patch was more about the sound itself and also quite interesting sequences when one sequencer controls this patch and the sound from one oscillator I raise and lower almost like transpositions ...
This is a great module because it extends the possibilities of creating new sequences or spaces and moving between two oscillators"

more info here: https://www.cctv.fm

"THE GARDEN CITY ELECTRONIC MUSIC COMMUNITY CREATED A TIMEMACHINE USING RARE TESLA BLUEPRINTS AND WENT INTO THE FUTURE TO GATHER DATA OF THE DAY; SEEKING OUT INSTRUMENTS FROM THE CREATIVE YOUTH OF THE FUTURE. UPON RETURNING TO 2019 THEY BROUGHT THOSE IDEAS TO FILIP PIETRUSZEWSKI TO RE-ENGINEER, DESIGN, AND REALIZE THIS FUTURISTIC INSTRUMENT USING MODERN AND ANTIIQUE TOOLS AT HIS MAD SCIENCE LAB AT CAPITAL CITY TRANSISTOR AND VALVE.

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Wonderment 2019 - Free Live Ambient and Downtempo Music Fest Set for August 3 - 4 in Victoria, BC

Published on Jul 8, 2019 Garden City Electronic Music Society BC

Note there is a night club event on August 2 listed below.

"The Garden City Electronic Music Society (GCEMS) presents

Wonderment 2019

FREE ALL-AGES OUTDOOR PROGRAMMING:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
1pm to 6pm: West Bridge Plaza
Pete Grove (Woodwork Recordings, YVR)
Jules Chaz (Wagon Repair, YYJ)
Psychic Pollution (Eat Glass Records, YYJ)
Mal/God (feat. OKPK's Dan Godlovitch & percussionis Colin Malloy)
Cascadia Sound (YYJ)
JVZ (YYJ)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4
1pm to 7pm: Banfield Park
Matt Thibideau (Obsolete Components, Deep Data, Cynosure, YYZ)
Segue (Silent Season, YVR)
Cindy Reichel (Patchwerks, SEA)
The SoLow (YAZ)
JP Meldrum (Formidable Licorice, YYJ)

NIGHT-TIME 19+ TICKETED EVENTS:

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3
10:00pm to LATE: Studio Robazzo (2001 Douglas St)
"ARDOR" presented by Electric Dreams and GCEMS
Matt Thibideau (aka Altitude - LIVE Dub Techno Set)
Frivolous (LIVE Set)
with DJs Shane Lighter & Nick Karma
$20 Early Bird Tickets
https://ti.to/electric-dreams-events/...

NIGHT CLUB EVENTS:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 - Vila Presents
7:00pm to 10:45pm: Lucky Bar
w/ Golden Vessel, Instupendo, Tropic Harbour
$15

SATURDAY, AUGUST 3 - Vibrate Victoria
10:00pm to 2:00am: Copper Owl
with DJs Chris Dammeyer, Sean Evans, Big Body, Jesse Campbell
$10

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 - Sunday Standard
10:00pm to 2:00am: Lucky Bar
with the Left Coast Crew

More info TBA."

What You Need To Know About 8 Bit Samplers

Published on Sep 11, 2018 The Daydream Sound

"Using an 8-bit sampler definitely has challenges tha 12 bit or 16 bit samplers. Here’s what you need to know about working with 8Bit Samples. Using the Bastl Microgranny2 sequenced with the Akai MPC2000, we’ll listen and discuss what well recorded 8 bit audio should sound like. We’ve also used the Data Garden MIDI Sprout connected to the Ensoniq ASR-10 to provided some accompaniment to the Micogranny2. Let us know what you think about 8 bit samplers and 8bit audio? Would you use it in your studio and music? Let us know your thoughts!"

Smokey Quartz - Plant Music 12

Published on Aug 6, 2018 Smokey Quartz

"In this Plant Music video I use the Data Garden MIDI Sprout along with it’s app to record some wild grape plants that were growing along the Santa Margarita River Trail in Fallbrook California."

MIDI Sprout for iOS Released

Note this app requires MIDI Sprout hardware.

via iTunes: MIDI Sprout - Data Garden

"Use this app with your MIDI Sprout to listen to your plants!

Plug your MIDI Sprout into the Lightning port using an iConnectMIDI1 cable. Turn on your MIDI Sprout and listen to your plants play harmonious sounds designed by our team of artists. Experience the way patterns and melodies change in relationship to fluctuations in your environment."


And the press release:

"Data Garden announces release of MIDI Sprout for iOS, a device that lets plants play music through an iPhone.

In 2014 Data Garden Kickstarted MIDI Sprout, a device to connect plants to synthesizers, allowing them to produce generative music in real time. After years of presenting this work in installations and refining the technology itself they are announcing its integration into the iOS platform. “We are very excited to release this new app into the world,” says Joe Patitucci, Founder and Co-Director of Data Garden. “The original MIDI Sprout helped our fans recreate the experience of our live installations at home, but there was a learning curve as a MIDI Sprout only worked alongside synthesizers or computer programs that required sound design experience. That all changes now. Our team was able to produce an app with built-in instruments designed especially for plants to play. With our new app, listening to plants is as easy as plugging MIDI Sprout into your iPhone.”

MIDI Sprout for iOS consists of the original MIDI Sprout with a MIDI to Lightning cable that allows users to plug the device into their iPhone. The package also comes with two sensors that stick onto the plant and are connected to the MIDI Sprout device. The sensors detect very small electrical fluctuations that occur over the surface of the plant’s leaves. The MIDI Sprout converts these signals into MIDI information that is sent to the phone where it is processed into sound, thereby allowing the plant’s biorhythms to control digital instruments in real time.

'This is just the beginning,” muses Jon Shapiro, Co-Director of Data Garden. “Not only will this easy-to-use version allow us to bring plant music to more people, but it serves as a platform for us to start building really interesting networking features. It’s a platform for other forms of biodata sonification as well. We’re looking forward to working with our community to develop features so that listening to their plants can be as magical at home as it is in their imagination' Shapiro added."

Tiptop Audio Officially Introduces “ONE” Sample Playback Eurorack Module

Tiptop Audio "ONE" from Tiptop Audio on Vimeo.

"ONE brings organic sound and super low latency sample playback to the modular. It differs from other sample players in that it handles the digital audio bits as a continuously manipulated electrical flow, a feature inspired by our analog knowhow. This unique core makes ONE truly integral within the Tiptop percussive modular ecosystem thanks to a lightweight and responsive digital circuit with a very analog feel.

ONE brings a world of colors to the modular right out of the package. We have invited some of the best sound designers in the Industry to create professional sound libraries with content tailored to the unique sonic framework of the modular synthesizer and that fully takes advantage of ONE’s unique qualities. To start with, ONE comes with a SD card loaded with a free set of 60 sounds designed by Glitchmachines. More cards are available to purchase separately each containing carefully selected material with up to 256 sound files. Using your own sample libraries or recordings is easy too, just copy 16 or 24bit mono WAV files onto the SD card, pop the card into ONE and go.

ONE offers several modes of operation, with the primary being the super low latency Trigger mode that retrieves audio data off the SD card adding no artificial processing such as click removal, crossfading, eq or gain normalization. In this mode, it’s a highly transparent player up to 24 bit 96kHz with no interpolation of the audio data: what you put in is what you get out. With a delay as low as 0.25ms from the moment the trigger hits, ONE offers harmonically dense, clear and detailed audio with a great rhythmic feel.

ONE handles external CV through a user selectable multifunction jack. Pitch is the main control with two modes available: Free pitch allows for fine tuning of the playback rate, great for adding subtle vibrato or wild tape speed effects; Quantized pitch maps CV to the standard 12 tone system over 3.5 octaves and is ideal for melodic content. CV can also be used to sequence through files off the SD card allowing far more varied sounds from a single source; almost like an entire percussion section behind the slim panel.

Although originally designed to play tightly with our analog drums and envelopes, ONE’s rich sound quality encouraged us to make it work in a variety of other applications that are less demanding of sub millisecond timing response. The extra headroom at the core level allows features such as Gated playback, Looping, and Triggering with fades in and out to accommodate different types of sound sources from drum loops to polysynth chords to noise sources and other yet unimagined uses.

ONE offers another useful dimension since it can play CV signals too. Drop in a card with LFO signals, random CV, slopes and envelopes for a whole set of new control and modulation possibilities.

ONE is as simple to use as it is affordable and plays extremely well with it’s analog cousins - our vision for bringing samples into the modular world.

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VCTRS: Lets Get Started

Type: One Shot

Character: Mixed material

ONE includes a card called VCTRS featuring 60 carefully chosen sounds from the 5 sound banks developed by Glitchmachines. We have included some of the most compelling material from each bank in order to showcase ONE’s strengths and demonstrate the broad range of sounds available on the PERC, SBSTRT, KERNL, HYBRD and BENT cards which are available separately from Eurorack retailers.

VCTRS and the other Glitchmachines cards include the entire sound set sampled at 48kHz, 64 kHz and 96kHz. The 48k rate allows for easy pitching up of one octave, 64k offers some pitch upward while maintaining much of the fidelity of the 96k source and full 96k offers the purity of the source as well as the lowest latency possible for great performance.

Forthcoming cards from a wide array of sound designers, artists and producers will expand the range to include poly and mono synth tones, field recordings and even CV source material."

Update: cards added below:

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Plant Music #6 – (MIDI Sprout + Piano + Organ)

Published on Feb 13, 2017 Smokey Quartz

"In this plant music experiment I try to see if the plants song changes from night to day. Using the MIDI Sprout, a Colocasia plant plays the piano and Arturia B-3 organ at midnight and then again the next morning. Can you hear a difference? I can but it’s subtle."

Update: one more just added:

Plant Music #7 – (MIDI Sprout + mallets + organ)

Published on Feb 13, 2017 Smokey Quartz

"This plant music experiment has a Euphorbia Trigona play a euphoric song with distorted mallets and Arturia B-3 organ with the aid of the Data Garden MIDI Sprout."

Listening to Plants at Sunset with MIDI Sprout

Published on Feb 9, 2017 MIDI Sprout

"Data Garden founder and artist, Joe Patitucci, visits Torrey Pines State Reserve in California where he addresses your questions about how light changes a plant's music. Tune in as he connects his MIDI Sprout to native grasses along cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Listen to the changes in the melodies as the sun sets and share your findings in the comments!"

I see some smooching in the background.

Hiking with MIDI Sprout - Sick Plant vs. Healthy Plant

Published on Jan 23, 2017 MIDI Sprout

"Data Garden founder, Joe Patitucci, takes us on a hike through Than Sadet National Forest in Thailand and listens to native plants. Tune in as he connects his MIDI Sprout to two different plants - a healthy plant and a plant that's being eaten by pests. Take note the difference in the characteristics in the patterns produced by these two plants and post your observations below!"

Island Hopping with MIDI Sprout

Published on Nov 26, 2016 MIDI Sprout

"Data Garden founder, Joe Patitucci, shares tips on keeping your MIDI Sprout in top shape along with an inside look at what he carries to allow him to make plant music in wherever he is in the world.

For more info on how to get the most out of your MIDI Sprout, visit our user forum at http://support.midisprout.com

Joe's Travel Kit

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Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Lichens) Uses MIDI Sprout

Published on May 8, 2016 MIDI Sprout

"Excerpt of an interview and performance with Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe from his residency at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California"

"DATA GARDEN RELEASES 60 MIDI Sprouts FOR SALE ON MAY 22nd AT NOON EST

The arts collective Data Garden is announcing another sale of their highly anticipated MIDI Sprout device that allows people to generate electronic music from their houseplants. Two years after their successful Kickstarter campaign, the collective is making 60 of these rare devices available for purchase to the general public on May 22nd at Noon EST.

'We’ve received a steady flow of interest from people who missed our Kickstarter and want to buy a MIDI Sprout,' says Joe Patitucci, artist and founder of Data Garden. 'While we are open to partnering with hardware manufacturers to make more, we currently have no plans to do so. With only 60 units available and more than 900 people on our waiting list, this is an important time to act in order to buy one as soon as the sale goes live.'

Interested people can go to www.MIDISprout.com to signup for email updates as the sale approaches. The collective will launch an internet pop-up shop at the end of the month during Moogfest in North Carolina, where they will be leading plant music meditation and composition workshops.

'This is a really exciting time for us,' muses Jon Shapiro, Data Garden performer and practitioner. 'I’ve met such wonderful people performing and doing installations with MIDI Sprout over the past two years. We would connect deeply on how this device can change people’s personal and artistic lives. I always felt a twinge of remorse when they would ask how to buy one and I didn’t have a concrete answer. Though the amount we can offer is disproportionate to the large demand, this is a wonderful step forward.'

The musical collaborations that Shapiro is referring to have included musicians like Laraaji, Greg Fox, Lichens, King Britt and Bryce Hackford. Meanwhile, Patitucci continues to exhibit his sound sculptures while leading group meditations and furthering his listening practice under guidance from Pauline Oliveros. Sam Cusumano, the engineering mind behind the MIDI Sprout is working on an upcoming collaboration with John Zorn.

About Data Garden
Data Garden creates experiences through music and technology. We seek to connect people and nature in new ways.

Begun as a record label releasing downloadable album codes printed on plantable seed paper, Data Garden has become a worldwide public art project building community and connection to living plants through art."

Update via Samuel Cusumano in the comments: "Get detailed information about the MIDI Sprout, code, schematics, board designs, and instruction at support.midisprout.com! I'm always happy to discuss the technology. Understand how your tools work!"

Supermoon Preparation

Supermoon Preparation from Bryan Noll on Vimeo.

"Performed on a modular synthesizer using Ableton Live for effects and mixing.

http://soundcloud.com/fourhexagons/supermoon-preparation

This piece emerged from the patch I was working on in preparation for a Supermoon music/camping party this weekend at my home in the Catskills. Other artists performing include two snake plants and a handful of people the likes of Gen Ken Montgomery, G Lucas Crane, Joe and Jon from Data Garden, Lampeo, et al.

The patch is intended to facilitate a 30-minute live set, while the recorded piece is one movement of the entire set. Tides is set up to be played either by René (as we hear in this movement) or by Yarns’ arpeggiator and/or directly from the QuNexus. Ableton Live provides additional reverb, delay, filtering, mixing, mutes, and looper, all controlled without the need to see the computer screen using an iPhone 6 running a custom Lemur template.

Variation in the patch is created by changing time using Yarns tempo and clock divisions and the steps and fills of ADDAC402, while changing pitch/tonality with René, QuNexus, Disting, and of course shaping envelopes, wiggling of knobs, and jamming out the effects with the Lemur interface.


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Meet the Sonic Artist Making Music with Plants: Sound Builders

Published on Sep 16, 2014 Motherboard

"In this episode of Sound Builders, we went to Los Angeles, to meet with Mileece. She's a sonic artist and environmental designer who's developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression.

Channeling a plant's sentience into an instrument is no obvious feat. Mileece's background as an audiophile and programmer dovetailed to turn a garden into an organic medium for music. She pulls this off by attaching electrodes to leafy limbs, which conduct the bio-electric emissions coming off living plants. The micro-voltage then gets sucked into her self-authored software, turning data into ambient melodies and harmonic frequencies.

It's simply not enough for these green little squirts to just spit out noise. All this generative organic electronic music must sound beautiful, too. As a renewable energy ambassador, Mileece's larger goal behind her plant music is to enhance our relationship with nature. And if plant music can have a pleasing aesthetic articulation then hopefully we all can give a greater damn about our environment.

While some may see the paradox in an organic medium generating electronic music, Mileece does not. She sees this as a symbiotic relationship, a vital one, and one that hints to a larger relationship she's been trying to unify, which is that between humans and nature."

Data Garden Achieves MIDI Sprout Kickstarter Goal

"Data Garden are pleased to announce that they have reached their Kickstarter goal for the MIDI Sprout, a device that allows people to listen to music from the natural biorhythms of their houseplants through synthesizers, computer and iOS devices. The crowdfunding campaign is live through Sunday April 20th and, for now, is the only opportunity to order a MIDI Sprout.

The campaign which gathered coverage from music and pop culture websites achieved it’s targeted $25,000 on Sunday, 4/13. While this success guarantees that the MIDI Sprout will go into limited production this summer, the campaign is still active for the rest of the week, coming to a close on Sunday, April 20th.

"Data Garden is not a hardware company. We are a group of artists committed to creating opportunities for the public to experience their environment in new ways," says Data Garden Director, Joe Patitucci. "We would like to produce more MIDI Sprouts down the line but the goal right now is to get this technology out there so our friends and fans can experiment. This may be the last opportunity for people to order a MIDI Sprout, so it’s important that they act now and get one while they can."

Many cite the introduction of the MIDI Sprout as the beginning of the DIY Biofeedback movement. The week between achieving the financial goal and the formal close of the Kickstarter campaign allows those interested in the movement to fund the MIDI Sprout beyond this limited run."

Connecting MIDI Sprout to an iOS Device

Published on Apr 1, 2014 Data Garden·14 videos

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New Hardware Allows Plants to Play Synthesizers at SXSW Interactive

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/datagarden/midi-sprout-biodata-sonification-device

"Data Garden announces MIDI Sprout at SXSW Interactive

Austin, TX - March 6, 2014 - Data Garden, known for it’s art installations of plants playing electronic music, announced the debut of it’s revolutionary instrument called MIDI Sprout.

MIDI Sprout condenses plant sonification technology into a handheld device, allowing people to turn their own house plants into music.

A Kickstarter will be launched today as part of a three day performative installation at South By South West Interactive. The installation will be on view at showcases by Ableton and Moog, sharing bills with the likes of Deadalus and Gary Numan.

“People have been asking us countless questions about how we make music with plants,” said Joe Patitucci, Director and Founder of Data Garden. “We can’t wait for them to bring the MIDI Sprout into their home and do it themselves!”

MIDI Sprout is now available for pre-order through the Kickstarter page. Different levels of rewards come with other groundbreaking musical hardware from Data Garden’s friends at Sub Pac and Critter and Guitari. These packages give backers everything they need to create immersive biofeedback art in their own homes.

'We see this as the beginning of the global DIY biofeedback movement,” explains Patitucci. “Biofeedback art is an amazing aesthetic and therapeutic tool. This is the first time the technology is available to the public free from the influence of institutions.'"

KING BRITT 10:10 REHEARSAL x DATA GARDEN

KING BRITT 10:10 REHEARSAL x DATA GARDEN from King Britt on Vimeo.

"A clip from rehearsal for the Switched on Garden Festival happening on Sunday October 14....
http://datagarden.org/6114/switched-on-garden-002-event-details/

Also check my new album, The Bee and The Stamen, which is 'plantable' ! : http://store.datagarden.org/album/the-bee-and-the-stamenhttp://store.datagarden.org/album/the-bee-and-the-stamen

Filmed by Ramon"