Les plantes aussi peuvent chanter. Avec son invention, Joe a appris à les écouter.
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00:00We are going to listen to this vine sing right now. Let's hear it play some music.
00:21I really enjoy listening to philodendron and snake plants.
00:27Any plant that inspires me along the way on a hike with a beautiful view.
00:32Let's tune into the sounds played by this plant.
00:45We just attached two sensors to a plant's leaves and PlantWave detects these slight variations that are happening in plants based on them moving water around.
00:55We graph those variations as a wave, translate them into pitch, and then run those pitch messages through instruments that we design.
01:03So the result is this continuous stream of pleasing music that gives us all this sonic window into the secret life of plants.
01:12Many of you have been asking, what would a redwood tree sound like? Let's see what melodies it creates when we connect the PlantWave.
01:26If a plant is really under watered, it might play just a few notes.
01:32Whereas if a plant is really healthy and thriving, it will be going through the whole range.
01:37Looks like we have a plant here that may not have made it through this heat.
01:42So let's check it out. Let's see if it can make any music.
01:45Yeah, nothing.
01:48Let's see what happens when I water the plant. Let's listen.
01:53Every plant is different and every leaf is different.
01:58So here we are listening to this rubber tree.
02:04And now let's check out this pothos.
02:11PlantWave actually works with mushrooms as well. So let's check it out.
02:16Most of the time with mushrooms, though, the mushrooms are growing out of a dead plant.
02:21And so you're actually hearing the connection between two mushrooms through a dead plant.
02:37The development of PlantWave started back in 2011 when I started a record label.
02:42It was a zero-waste record label.
02:45My friends and I got together and started to think about how we could express this connection to nature with music.
02:51And we became really interested in biofeedback music.
02:55I have an awesome engineer friend who built the hardware that ended up becoming PlantWave.
03:00And I designed a generative music algorithm that takes all of this data,
03:07from the plants and actually makes it into this beautiful, listenable, harmonious music.
03:14I'm testing one of these new prototypes.
03:17And I'm testing this 8-inch MIDI connector here, which is cool.
03:27We had four different plants and each plant was playing a different instrument.
03:32Thousands of people came through this space and were able to just chill out listening to plants.
03:37And I was really amazed by people's response.
03:46It's acting as a bridge for people from their phones back into nature
03:52and helping people have a deeper relationship with their plants.
03:58It's helping people have a deeper relationship with their plants.