Plants Can Dance x Music To Watch Seeds Grow By

We're joining Brian d'Souza aka the excellent Auntie Flo and his London residency of Plants Can Dance this Sunday 14th Sept @ Hideout in Hackney Wick

Plants Can Dance, is our friend Brian d’Souza aka Auntie Flo’s exploration into plant and fungi bioelectrical music…. and it returns this Sunday to Hideout in Hackney Wick.

And Music To Watch Seeds Grow By will be joining his biosphere with our plant friends Stella Z and Lapalace both playing live on the day.

Brian says ”I wanted to create a multi-functioning event that covered all bases - from performances and deep listening to educational talks and workshops, and I’m super excited by the line up we’ve put together this weekend.”

You can find the full programme below.

If you are in London it would be great to some plant friends! Tickets here

Biosonification Workshops (3-5pm)

“We begin with 2 hours of workshops - where you can experiment with a variety of different devices that convert the electrical impulses from plants (and living things) into MIDI. It’s the same process that went viral recently with the fungi drummer”

“We’ll set up workstations with PlantWave, MidiSpad, Biotron, Instruo Scion and the brand new Pocket Scion from Instruo and our friend Tarun aka Modern Biology. They’ve kindly provided us with multiple Pocket Scions so everyone can have a go with making your own bioelectrical music.”

Talks (5-6pm)

Two guest speakers -

Wild City Studio:

Wild City is a local duo of Jon Davies & Steve Williams who create wild urban spaces celebrating ecology and community present ‘Forgotten Corners’, an optimistic vision to unlock in our abandoned and neglected spaces across the cityscape. Using their local community garden in Markfield Park as a precedent the pair explore the alchemy of turning waste into abundance

Glitch by Nowadays on Earth x National Trust:

Kalpana Arias will be presenting cybergardening app ‘Glitch’ - a pioneering platform that uses AI, machine learning algorithms, augmented reality (AR), and LIDAR to create a world-building game where you can plant a range of edible, floral and fictional AR plants whilst looking at your urban landscape through your phone.

Live Music (6-8pm)

“We’re collaborating with the brilliantly named record label ‘Music To Watch Seeds Grow By’ to showcase two artists from the label, Stella Z and Lapalace, both of whom will be playing live sets. They have both released music inspired by different seeds, which come in a neat package of a tape cassette and seeds that you can plant.”

We’ll be joined by Plants Can Dance residents, Auntie Flo and Lamine, who will again be experimenting with a dual modular synth set up, powered by the plants that Lamine will move over from his neighbouring plant shop Repot.

Here’s a video from last time around:

Plant Dance (8-10pm)

“We’ll finish off with a ‘plant dance’ which is basically a DJ set with music curated for the plants in the space (as well as the humans). The vibe will be similar to my My Analog Journal set from earlier this year”

If you are in London, we hope you can make it on Sunday. TICKETS here!