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Articles before September 2019 refer to us as MIDI Sprout, which was a previous version of our device.

Tuning into the Secret Life of Plants with Joe Patitucci
Podcast, Before IT Happened, October 2022

Button pushers: the artists making music from mushrooms
Article, The Guardian, May 2022

Musicians Are Hooking Up Synthesizers to Plants for New Sonic Possibilities
Article, The Verge, March 2022

Enjoy the soulful, natural music of the Seaport’s Singing Trees
Article, Boston Globe, January 2022

Your city is too loud. Here’s how urban designers are fighting ‘sonic trash’
Article, Fast Company, October 2021

An instrument that can play the music of plants
Video Interview, Brut Media, September 2021

Listen to the mesmerizing music made by plants
Video Interview, Mashable.com, August 2021

Plant Music composer Joe Patitucci simplifies plant intelligence and holographic theory
Podcast, Alyson Stoner, August 2020

Joe Patitucci on the soulful wisdom of houseplants
Interview, Art29 for Calm.com May 2020

Making Music with Plants
Article, Popular Mechanics, February 2020

The Lessons To Be Learned From Forcing Plants To Play Music
Article, NPR, February 2020

The Top 10 Shows at Copenhagen Fashion Week
Article, Hypebae, January 2020

Aubrey Marcus Podcast (NSFW language)
Podcast Interview, Aubrey Marcus - AMP 242, January 2020

YES, YES, YES - Natasha Stagg around the Azulik hotel
Article, Artforum, January 2020

These clever gadgets will help your ailing houseplants thrive
Article, WIRED UK, January 2020

Duncan Trussell Family Hour Podcast (NSFW language)
Podcast Interview, DTFH, September 2019

Let Your Plants Play Music, and Gardens of Sound Will Bloom
Article, WIRED, September 2019

From Stevie Wonder to Mother Earth's Plantasia
Article, NPR, June 2019

Plants That Sing
Podcast Interview, Twenty Thousand Hertz, June 2019

Coachella installation creates music from plants' biorhythms
Television Interview, ABC News / Good Morning America, April, 2019

The secret life of plant music
Article, TED, April 2019

Poplar music: The extraordinary flowering of Plants FM
Article, The Telegraph, March 2019

The Secret Life of Plants
Interview, NPR - The Organist, September, 2018

National Park Service Ad Campaign
Artist feature for National Park Service #FINDYOURWAY promotional campaign, Summer, 2018

Joe Rogan Show #1075
Mention, Duncan Trussell and Joe Rogan talk plant consciousness and MIDI Sprout, February, 2018

Inside the Spiritual World of Plant-Based Instruments
Interview, Vice - Thump, September, 2016

Musik aus der Eiskugel
Article, Golem (DE), December 2014

Data Garden: Pioniere der DIY-Biofeedback-Music
Television Interview, Tracks | Arte TV (DE / FR), September 2014

Rave On, Topfpflanze
Article, Intro Magazine (DE), July 2014

MIDI Sprout lets your plants create the sound of music
Article, The Guardian, May 2014

The Secret Language of Plants
Radio Broadcast, To the Best of Our Knowledge | Public Radio International, May 2014

Your houseplants can play electronic music with MIDI Sprout
Article, Dazed, April 2014

The Future of Music? The 405 interviews the people behind MIDI Sprout
Article, The 405, March 2014

Setting human biorhythms to an electronic beat: Data Garden
Radio Interview, WHYY, February 2014

A Data Garden homage to honeybees, sound and geometry
Article, Knight Arts, September 2013

Co-Composing with Plants
Interview, Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, June 2013

Plantable Music
Article Origin Magazine (print), March 2013

Music For Plants, Music by Plants in Two Eco-Themed Releases
Article, CreateDigitalMusic, May 2012

Interacting with Plants to Create Polyphonic Music
Interview, The Creator’s Project, April 2012

Listen But Do Touch
Interview, PulpLab, April 2012

Data Garden Pushes Biodegradable Circuitry and Plantable Albums
Interview, Vice Magazine/Motherboard TV, February 2012

Future of Audio-Visual
Feature, ModTV / MTV Brasil. November 2011

Data Garden Debuts Worlds First Plantable Music
Interview, Inhabitat, October 2011

Just Add Water
Interview, Philadelphia City Paper, September 2011