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Plant Music and Deep Listening
Plant music is a way of exploring sound with plants and trees through biofeedback, listening and creative response.
The technology may translate subtle changes into sound, but the deeper practice is listening.
What plant music can teach
Plant music invites patience. It asks us to slow down, notice small changes and pay attention to the living world around us.
A simple practice without equipment
Sit near a plant or tree. Listen quietly for a few minutes. Notic...
I am very lucky here where I live in a very rural part of Devon as I have a hill forest literally on my doorstep where I am more often than not the only human being walking around, and I enjoy spending my days as a practicing Druid, learning and connecting with the land and discovering new creative inspirations as I travel through the trees.Ā
One sunny day two weeks ago as I was approaching my usual route ( a whole circumambulation takes around one hour and a half ) I decided to find some new s...
Ā For me this song on a personal level begins with a lifelong fascination with trees, and even more so with a strong belief since childhood that all beings that we share this world with, are sentient and intelligent. As a musician, a sound healer and a druid it was with great excitement as well as trepidation that I set out to produce a song, that was a collaboration between an Oak tree and Human.
To do this involved a process that unfolded over the course of just under a year, and became my mos...