Pantala Labs’ Gibran Curtiss Salomao shared this video demo of Madre Tierra, a Eurorack module designed to ‘create unparalleled interaction between human being, plants and synthesizers.’
Madre Tierra is an open source project, building on a project called Touche for Arduino: Advanced Touching Sensing, by Mads Hobye. Madre Tierra provides high-sensitive CVs, triggers in and out and controls to read proximity or touch.
The module provides:
- two CV outs
- antialias filter to each cv
- signal stability control
- signal step control
- trigger in
- trigger out
- free mode / triggered mode
- forward triggers mode
- backward triggers mode
- all triggers mode / quiet mode
- linear mode / sparkle mode
Information is available via the Pantala Labs site and GitHub.
If evolution was true maybe we would already have plants with their own keyboard playing their own songs…
W O W.
This is like poking a mouse, and taking its hiss and thinking “wow, that converts to a snappy envelope”. Though it is good for us to study interactions with plants, this device only exploits their response mechanism.