Plants can Dance with DJ Brian d’Souza (Auntie Flo)

A musical collaboration with nature. Living organisms, like plants and fungi, produce unique electronic signals that can be converted into sound and music: a process called biosonification. This is a Cultivating Connections project.

About Brian d’Souza

Brian d’Souza (Auntie Flo) is an award-winning sound artist, DJ, music producer and live performer. His compositions fuse field recording from around the globe with electro-acoustic production techniques to create ‘acoustic ecologies’ that are centred on exploring the psychological and physical benefits of sound.

He currently runs the ‘Plants Can Dance (and Mushrooms Sing)’ event series, which is home his work around the creation of bioelectrical music from living organisms: plants, fungi and humans. He uses data to trigger notes on his specially built modular synthesizer in a process called bionsonification, with the intention of bridging the gap between the natural world and electronic music realm.

This work has been commissioned by the likes of Art Angel, National Trust, Het Hem, V&A etc and featured in New Scientist, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 4, Tate Modern, Rolling Stone, BBC Radio 1 and more.

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