PlantWave

Will this bird of paradise sing? Let’s find out with a PlantWave plant music device. Give plants a voice. Tune into nature with PlantWave. #plantwave #plantmusic #plantsofinstsgram

Let’s listen to this prickly pear cactus in Sedona with PlantWave. #plantmusic #plantwave #sedona #arizona #nature #cactus #cactuslover

Do mushrooms communicate? Research has shown that mushrooms are connected to each other through a mycelium network known as the wood wide web! Here, we connect these two Amanita mushrooms to our PlantWave device. What you’re hearing is the change in electrical connection between the two mushrooms, through the soil, translated into sound. We mapped the signals to synthesizer and bass. How do you like the sounds? While designed for plants, PlantWave also works on mushrooms. Get PlantWave today from our Instagram shop or at PlantWave.com #plantwave #mushroom #amanita #mushroommusic #mushroomsynth #natureasmr #soundsoflife #mushrooms #frequency #nature #planetearth

In Antelope Valley, California, where the desert meets the foothills and the ground turns orange every spring, we asked a California poppy (Eschscholzia californica) to sing. The answer is yes. Every plant we connect to PlantWave generates music, because every plant generates a constant flow of bioelectric activity as it lives. Water moves, ions flow, signals travel. PlantWave translates those changes into sound. The plant doesn’t have to do anything special. It only has to be alive. What makes this particular flower interesting is its rhythm. California poppies close their petals every evening and reopen them every morning. They close on cold days, on cloudy days, when the wind is too strong. They are paying attention to the sky in a way most flowers do not. So when we record one, we are not just hearing a single song. We are hearing a flower that has been keeping time with the sun for thousands of years. It is also the state flower of California, blooming across the hills of the Antelope Valley reserve in superbloom years when the winter rains come right. Learn more at PlantWave.com #flowers #california #superbloom #wildflowers #poppies

Where the volcano meets the ocean on the Big Island of Hawaii, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a fern growing on cooled lava, a few feet from the crashing Pacific. People often ask us why we do this. Why listen to plants? A few reasons. Because plants were here first. Long before us, long before animals, long before the dinosaurs, plants were turning sunlight into life and quietly building the atmosphere we now breathe. Listening to a plant is, in a small way, listening to an elder. Because plants are alive in ways we forget. They sense, respond, communicate, remember, and adapt. The signals we translate into sound are not random. They are a real expression of a living being navigating its environment in real time. Because we are them. Every atom in our bodies came from the same Earth, the same ocean, the same stardust. Listening to a plant is one of the simplest ways to remember that the line between human and nature was never as solid as we thought. And because the world is full of song that almost no one is hearing. PlantWave makes a small part of that song audible. We hope it sparks curiosity, presence, and a quieter kind of joy. Learn more at plantwave.com #listening #nervoussystem #naturewhisperer #fern #naturelovers

In the village of Samnaun in the Swiss Alps, we recorded the bioelectric signals of fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium), a plant whose name comes from one of the most remarkable habits in the botanical world. Fireweed is among the very first plants to grow back after a wildfire. When everything else has been burned to ash, fireweed arrives, blooms, and turns the scorched ground magenta. After Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, fireweed carpeted the lava fields within a few years. In Britain it earned a different name. During the Blitz of WWII, German bombs leveled entire blocks of London. The summer after, fireweed bloomed in the bomb craters where buildings used to stand. Locals called it bombweed. It was the plant that came back when everything else was gone. This is a plant whose entire life strategy is rebirth. It waits in the soil for years, sometimes decades, until disaster clears a space, and then it appears. What in your life has bloomed from what burned? Learn more at plantwave.com #plantwave #fireweed #resiliance #naturelovers #peacefulplaces

Translating seaweed into sound. In this reel I’m sharing how I use the @plantwave device to capture the bioelectric signals of seaweed and transform them into music — part of my ongoing PhD @falmouthuni research exploring the hidden language of coastal ecosystems here in Falmouth, Cornwall. Blending botanical art, science, sound and the shoreline, this work is deeply connected to my daily life by the sea and the rhythms of the tide. ✨ #PlantWave #SoundArt #PhDLife #ArtAndScience

In a wet rainforest near Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii, I recorded the bioelectric signals of wāwaeʻiole (Lycopodiella cernua), a clubmoss whose Hawaiian name means “rat’s foot,” after the cylindrical shape of its branch tips. Despite its name, this is not a moss. Wāwaeʻiole belongs to one of the oldest lineages of vascular plants on Earth, dating back over 400 million years. That is older than dinosaurs. Older than seeds. Older than flowers. The ancestors of this plant were giants. During the Carboniferous period, clubmosses grew up to 100 feet tall and formed the first true forests on the planet. When those forests died, they were buried, compressed, and slowly turned into the coal seams we still mine today. The fuel that powered the industrial revolution came from a relative of this plant. This is a living echo of the first forests on Earth. Each tiny frond is shaped like a miniature tree, and that resemblance is not a coincidence. This is what trees looked like before there were trees. What’s the oldest living thing you’ve ever stood next to? Learn more at PlantWave.com #nature #hawaii #bigisland #forestcore #ancientplants

Happy Mother’s Day 🌍 to all the Mothers and to Mother Nature, the greatest Mother of all 🤍 Listening to Mother Nature with PlantWave is one of our favourite ways to listen and tap into nature, if you want to do the same, drop “wave” below and we’ll send you the link ✨

Above the village of Samnaun in the Swiss Alps, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a saxifrage (Saxifraga paniculata), known by an older and far more interesting name: stonebreaker. The Latin comes from saxum (rock) and frangere (to break). For thousands of years people watched this little plant living inside the cracks of solid stone, assumed it had broken the rock open, and named it accordingly. Medieval herbalists thought it could dissolve kidney stones too. The truth is even more remarkable. Saxifrage doesn’t break rock with force. It survives by patience. Its roots find the smallest cracks, hold tight, and slowly turn bare stone into a place where life can begin. Every cushion of saxifrage is a tiny island of soil that future plants will eventually colonize. This is one of the first arrivals in the harshest alpine zones. The meadow comes after. Where in your life are you the stonebreaker? Learn more at plantwave.com #plants #plantconsciousness #plantwisdom #mountains #switzerland

In the Dolomites of northern Italy, we recorded the bioelectric signals of dwarf juniper (Juniperus communis subsp. alpina), a sprawling alpine conifer whose woody branches have been shaped over centuries by wind, ice, and altitude into low cushions hugging the mountain. Every plant is a direct expression of the place where it grows. Its shape, its rhythms, its electrical signals are Earth speaking through living form. When we listen to a plant, we are Earth listening to itself. We are not visitors here. We are not separate from this. We are Earth consciousness in human form, briefly upright, briefly aware, learning to hear the rest of ourselves. May these sounds fill you with feelings of awe and wonder for life. When did you last feel that you were part of the Earth, not just on it? Learn more at plantwave.com #earthconsciousness #naturelovers #peacefulplaces #travelguide #outdoors

In the Dolomites of northern Italy, we recorded the bioelectric signals of a small tuft of alpine grass clinging to thin soil at the top of a mountain. Listen carefully. Notice the long stretches of silence. Notice how each note arrives, lingers, and gives way to space. PlantWave creates a note every time it detects a meaningful change in the plant’s electrical activity. Plants with abundant water, warmth, and movement generate dense, flowing music. Plants in extreme conditions like high altitude, thin soil, and cold wind generate something quieter, slower, more deliberate. The silence is not absence. It’s the plant’s pace. It’s the music of a life that has learned to do more with less. What does silence sound like to you when you listen for it? Learn more at plantwave.com #hiking #alpine #naturelovers #peacefulplaces #mindfulness