MIDI Sprout – a platform that is designed to let plants play synthesizers in real time – has been fully funded as a Kickstarter project.
The platform is part biofeedback and part data sonfication:
Each MIDI Sprout comes with two probes that measure small electrical currents across the surface of a plant’s leaf. When applied to a human this is called the galvanic skin response (GSR). GSR readings provide insight into humans’ inner emotional states and are the basis of simple lie detector circuits.
The MIDI Sprout converts these fluctuations into MIDI notes and controls that can be read by synthesizers and computers. This information can be scaled and played through synthesizers or used to activate pre-programmed sonic environments.
MIDI Sprout is fully funded, with four days left for the Kickstarter fundraiser. The kit is available for US $90 to backers.
Sweet now I can hook up my synths to my avacado tree.
I just say: L S D
This makes me change my recommendation of my treatment, if I ever hit my head and go braindead.
Don’t pull the plug.
Of course, my new band might prove to be rather macabre on live situations.
I check the calendar every time I see posts about this, and, no, it doesn’t say April 1st. I was so sure…
I cannot fathom the usefuleness of this. 🙂
I’ve been so looking forward to this. I want to expand my sound meditations by using this. I imagine Data-Garden feeding into Camel Audio Alchemy as I play a shakuhachi processed through Abelton live as people lay on mats in a botanical garden. Living Cymatic frequencies baby.
Ah, the lengths that hipsters will go to avoid just LEARNING HOW TO PLAY AN INSTRUMENT!
because being human is so trendy nowadays (at least in SF bay area)
All watched over by machines of loving grace…
So if i hook them up to my cannabis, get some dub?
Mark my words. Analog Weed……