PlantWave joins Attuned
They make a device that lets plants sing, and 25,000 people are listening. Welcome, PlantWave.
Welcome, PlantWave.
PlantWave makes a small device that clips onto a plant’s leaves, picks up the tiny electrical changes running through it, and plays them back as music through a free app. Put it on a fern and the fern sings. Put it on a tree, a mushroom, or the basil on your windowsill and they sing too, each in its own way, all day long.
The company behind it is Data Garden, which Joe Patitucci started in 2011 as a zero-waste record label. Within a year they had plants playing an installation at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Their first device, MIDI Sprout, launched in 2014, and PlantWave followed in 2019. Joe has been building it ever since.
The music has never stayed in the box. In October their listening lounge took over a hotel lobby in San Francisco, and the PlantWave Quartet plays concerts and sound baths with plants as the players. More than 25,000 people own one, and they bring it into reiki sessions, sound baths and recording studios. Plug it into Ableton and the plant is in the band, which means anyone with a houseplant can make music with a living thing.
They give 1% of what they make to nature projects, and their mission fits in one line: “Our mission is to amplify the connection between humans and the natural world.”
We are glad they are here.