Artist Sabine Moore turns plants' electrical activity into music
Multimedia artist Sabine Moore, performing as Waterflower, converts electrical signals captured from plants into music. She regularly holds public performances featuring these nature-generated sounds.
Multimedia artist Sabine Moore, who performs under the stage name Waterflower, has found an unusual source for creating music — plants. For several years she has traveled to forests and meadows, attaching electrodes to mushrooms, mosses and trees that can detect even the smallest changes in a plant's electrical potential.
How the sound is made
According to Sabine, these fluctuations can be triggered by various environmental factors, such as changes in light, humidity or temperature, as well as a human touch on the plant. Sensors attached to the plants pick up the electrical signals and send them to a computer, where they are converted into data.
The artist then links this data to musical parameters — such as pitch, rhythm and volume. In this way, a plant's electrical activity, which is inaudible to the human ear on its own, is transformed into audible music.
Sabine Moore regularly organizes public performances where audiences can listen to musical pieces generated in this nature-based way.
