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Plant music sits somewhere between sonification, composition, field recording and relationship. A plant is connected to a sensing device; changing electrical measurements at the plant interface are translated into control data; that data is mapped to musical notes, timbres or other parameters; and the musician listens, responds, edits and shapes the resulting material.
That description is less sensational than saying āthe plant writes a songā, but for me it is far more interesting. The plant, sen...
The Sound Healing Library is an editorial guide to the main listening and practice pathways within The Mind Orchestra: voice, mantra, plant music, Druidic listening, ambient soundscapes, AstroSonic work and simple home practices.
It is a map rather than another audio catalogue. Use it to understand the different approaches, then follow the links to the pages where you can actually listen, practise or learn.
What Do I Mean By Sound Healing?
I use sound healing as a broad term for intentional practic...
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...