Something I've been thinking about lately is how differently we relate to plants when we stop seeing them only as part of the scenery

There’s something fascinating about their stillness. They don't move toward us, they don't speak in the way we do, and yet they're constantly exchanging matter and electrical signals with their environment. That made me wonder could technology give us a way to experience that relationship rather than just think about it?

I experimented with this through [biosonification](https://youtu.be/d2O1cN8O-z8?si=QTX_z4qZ87Y8dLQd)

Instead of using a plant as a “musical instrument”, I connected it to a Playtron device and a Roland JU-06A synthesizer. The important part is that the plant isn't playing a predetermined melody. The electrical properties of the plant become part of the circuit

The human body is part of it too

When I hold the ground connection and touch the plant, my body and the plant form a conductive path. Changes in resistance allow the Playtron to trigger MIDI notes, which then activate the synthesizer

So the sound isn't completely under my control

If I remove my hand, the circuit opens

The sound stops

That became the part I found most interesting from a meditation perspective

Meditation is often described as withdrawing attention from the external world and becoming aware of what is happening internally. Here, I wanted to try almost the opposite: remaining present enough to participate in a living electrical circuit

The physical interaction becomes the meditation

My body affects the circuit, the plant affects the circuit, the circuit affects the sound, the sound affects my perception

It's a very simple feedback loop, but experiencing it in real time felt strangely different from simply listening to meditation music

The idea also connects to David Rosenboom's early work on biosonification and biofeedback in the arts: biological signals can become part of a cybernetic feedback system where the distinction between performer, instrument and observer starts to blur

I also used 396 Hz as part of the sound design, not because I think the number has some magical property that can be objectively proven, but because frequency itself became another layer through which to explore the relationship between body, sound and attention

[I recorded the experiment so the actual physical interaction is visible!](https://youtu.be/d2O1cN8O-z8?si=QTX_z4qZ87Y8dLQd)

Does turning an invisible biological process into sound change the way you experience the idea of consciousness in plants, or does it simply give us another technological interface for something that was already happening?

meditation could become a conversation with another living organism?