{"id":28988,"date":"2018-12-10T21:43:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=28988"},"modified":"2018-12-10T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:43:00","slug":"exploring-plant-music-with-orlando-doom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/exploring-plant-music-with-orlando-doom\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring plant music with Orlando DOOm"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Orlando DOOm logo by Jonty K Mellmann<\/p><\/div>\n

It is well known that plants love music and that music stimulates the growing process of plants. But have you ever heard of sounds created with the help of plants? <\/strong><\/p>\n

As it is mentioned in the Upliftconnect<\/a>, \u201cForty years ago researchers at the Damanhur<\/a> Federation of Communities near Turin in Italy started intensive research into plant communication, attempting to prove that plants were sentient beings. They developed a device<\/a> out of this research, that can read the electromagnetic vibration of a plant and translate it into music.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Matteo Chiarenza (Orlando DOOm) with Olympia. Picture by Ugne Maladauskaite<\/p><\/div>\n

An Italian born and now London based multimedia artist Matteo Chiarenza (Orlando DOOm<\/a>) in the interview with The Voice of London explains how the plant music works. Orlando DOOm uses a plant and a synthesizer as well as a device that uses a MIDI interface and reads the electrical pulses of the plants. The device translates the sound of the pulse (the sound of the plant) to the synthesizer, creating various atmospheric notes.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SpunJcdhvGo<\/p>\n

Chiarenza adds: \u201cMusic is the Dionysiac representation of life. A complex cluster of tones and frequency which naturally engages with us in a synesthetic relationship. It has always been interesting for me how sound is perceived as aleatory and ethereal when compared to other artistic expressions such as painting which is a more visual type of representation. I think that having the ability to perceive every sound, even the ones that the ear finds less appealing, and analyzing the feel and character through a thoughtful process is not something that anybody could easily do. That’s why i love it.”<\/p>\n