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10/13/2026

Mushroom music 🍄🎶

In a mountain meadow, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a mushroom that had already dried out.

A fresh cap is mostly water. Take the water away and this is what is left. Flat, cracked, the colour of toast.

By the time a mushroom looks like this, its work is done. The spores dropped while it was fresh, millions of them, and the living part of the fungus is underground, spread through the soil, untouched by any of this.

We clipped on anyway. It gave us one note and held it. When the signal barely moves, the note does not move either, so what came out was a drone, one tone, for as long as we listened.

Nothing here is making sound out loud. We chose the instrument. When a note arrives, how long it holds, where it goes next, that part is the mushroom.

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10/13/2026

Fern Music 🌿🌋

On Kīlauea in Hawaii, we found this fern growing in a volcanic steam vent and connected it to PlantWave to hear its electrical activity as music.

Kīlauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, but it’s also home to some incredible plant life.

Rainwater seeps through cracks in the volcanic rock, gets heated underground, and rises back to the surface as steam. This creates pockets of warmth and humidity where ferns can thrive, even in an otherwise harsh volcanic landscape.

We love the idea that the same volcanic heat that can destroy a forest also creates the conditions for new plants to grow.

For this recording, we chose the instrument, while changes in the fern’s electrical activity shaped the notes and timing in real time.

It’s fascinating to hear music coming from a plant that’s so closely connected to the geological activity beneath it.

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10/12/2026

Volcano music 🌋

In the caldera of Kīlauea, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a pūkiawe while the volcano erupted behind it.
An erupting volcano is the loudest thing on the island.

Lava fountaining hundreds of feet into the air, rock cracking, gas roaring out of the vent. We walked past all of that and put the sensors on the quietest thing there. A shrub.

Pūkiawe is one of the first plants to take hold on new lava. It is in the heath family, a cousin of the blueberry and the cranberry, and it was on this ground before the fountain started and will be there after it stops.
So none of what you hear is the volcano. It is the plant that lives next to one.

Nothing here is making sound out loud. We chose the instrument. When a note arrives, how long it holds, where it goes next, that part is the pūkiawe.

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10/09/2026

Will this flower sing? 🌼🎶

Beside a sidewalk, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a lantana.

Look at the whole plant, not one flower. Tight green buds. Heads wide open and yellow. Heads that have finished and gone brown. All of it on the same stems at the same time.

That is how lantana lives. Each head lasts a few days. The plant does not stop to rest between them. Where there is no frost it keeps a new head opening almost every week of the year, and the old ones sit beside the new ones until they fall.

So yes, it plays. And it hardly ever stops.

Nothing here is making sound out loud. We chose the instrument. When a note arrives, how long it holds, where it goes next, that part is the lantana.

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10/08/2026

Morning glory music 🌀

In a garden, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a morning glory.

In Japan this flower has a better name. Asagao. Morning face. The flower that turns up at first light and is gone by the afternoon.

Two hundred years ago the people of Edo fell for it. Breeders raised hundreds of strange forms, flowers with torn petals, doubled petals, leaves like dragons, and traded them the way others traded tulips. Tokyo still holds a morning glory market every July, and people line up before dawn to buy them.

A flower with only a few hours to be seen, and a whole city got up early to see it.

Nothing here is making sound out loud. We chose the instrument. When a note arrives, how long it holds, where it goes next, that part is the morning glory.

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10/07/2026

Bird of paradise music 🦜

In a garden, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a bird of paradise flower.

It looks like a bird because it was built for one. The orange plumes are not the petals. The petals are the blue arrow underneath, fused into a bar, with the pollen sealed inside it. In South Africa, where this plant comes from, a sunbird lands on that bar to drink. Its weight presses the bar open and the pollen is pressed onto its feet. The flower is a landing strip with a lock on it, and only a bird’s weight is the key.

Far from home, with no sunbird to land, most of these flowers simply wait.

So we gave this one something to do while it waits.

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10/06/2026

Matcha music 🍵

In Japan, we recorded the bioelectric signals of the tea plant that matcha is made from.

There is a phrase at the heart of the tea ceremony. Ichigo ichie. One time, one meeting. The host prepares the bowl as if this gathering will never happen again, because it will not. The same people in the same room on another day make a different gathering.

The music works the same way. Nothing here is looped and nothing is played back. Every note comes from the plant’s signal as it moves, so this recording happened once and will not happen again.

Sit with it like a bowl of tea.

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10/04/2026

Japanese maple music 🍁

In British Columbia, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a Japanese maple standing in full sun.

This one is red, and not because autumn came early. The red is there all season, and it is not replacing the green either. It is a pigment laid over the top, with the chlorophyll still underneath doing its job behind it. The leaf is photosynthesising the whole time, through a filter.

That filter is closer to sunscreen than to decoration. It screens out light the leaf cannot use and can be damaged by. Plant this same tree in deep shade and it comes out muddy and half green. It only goes properly red where there is something to protect itself from.

So the colour you are looking at is a tree in bright light, dealing with it. We clipped on and let it play.

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10/01/2026

These sounds get wild 🌿🌀

On the rim of Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, with the crater steaming behind it, we recorded the bioelectric signals of an ʻōhiʻa lehua.

ʻŌhiʻa is the most common native tree in Hawaii and one of the first plants to grow on new lava. Its scientific name, polymorpha, means “many forms.” Up here on young lava it grows as a low shrub with fuzzy grey leaves. In the rainforest down the mountain, the same species grows into a tall tree with smooth green leaves.

We gave it long, deep notes that roll out slowly, like wind moving across open lava. The ʻōhiʻa sets the pace.

Put on headphones and listen to a plant on the edge of a volcano.

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09/30/2026

Will this plant sing? 🌿🎶

On Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a small hopbush growing straight out of black cinder. Hawaiians call it ʻaʻaliʻi.

There is an old Hawaiian saying about this plant: “I am a wind-resisting ʻaʻaliʻi, no gale can push me over.” It grows on open lava where the wind never lets up, and it stays put.

So we gave it long, deep notes that stretch out like wind over the crater. It plays slow.

Put on headphones and let it carry you.

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