Australia: Plugging into CIA interrogation technique to make plants sing
Tamara Jarrahmarri discovered the practice of amplifying a plant's electrical field during a visit to the ecovillage of Damanhur, an independent federation nestled in the foothills of the Italian northern alps.
Taken by the spectacle, Ms Jarramarri returned to her base in WA's south-west armed with a Music of the Plants device and set about extracting music from her potted geranium named Citronella.
The process involves attaching an alligator clamp to the leaf of a plant and an earthing rod into the soil.
Both feed back to the device which interprets the current to a pulse which can be set to replicate a variety of musical instruments.
After a period of trial and error, Citronella began to produce notes similar to keys being played on a piano.
Read more at ABC News (Anthony Pancia)
