Jai Sawkar – Looking Outwards – 10

This week, I looked at the work done by Mileece Petre, an English sound artist & environmental designer who makes generative & interactive art through plants. She believes that plants are observational and interactive beings, and she uses plants to make music by attaching electrodes to them. She uses data from the plants in the form of electromagnetic currents, and this data is translated into code. This code is then transformed into musical notes, in which she composes music from.

This project is super cool to me because it truly thinks out of the box. She is able to make minimalist, introspective music simply from small currents from plants. Moreover, it reflects the true possibilities of what music with computational tools can be!

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