<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mamoru Fujieda has a series called <i>Patterns of Plants.</i> There are a couple discs out on Tzadik. From their web site:<div><br></div><div>"Generating melodic material through the micro-changes of surface-electric potential on leaves, Mamoru Fujieda's second Tzadik release was composed completely based on data taken from plants. "<div><br></div><div>He also wrote an essay about the series and his process, which is published in the most recent volume of the <i>Arcana </i>series. (The music is also very pretty.)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers,</div><div>Brendan</div><div>heyexit.com</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 2, 2010, at 3:47 PM, Simon Roy Christensen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">hello hello</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">I'm about to write a music-historical paper/essay on music including nature, or maybe rather the acting of nature. Here I'm thinking of examples like some of Max Eastley's sound sculptures, Paul Panhuysen and Céleste Boursier-Mougenot use of birds, the sounds of fungi and plants made audible by Michael Prime or John Cage's "Atlas Eclipticalis" (notation derived from the position of stars), for instance.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">If any of you have recommendations to artists, works or literature or something else that spring to mind which might have some kind of relevance to this, it would be very nice to hear!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">thank you, </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">simon</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div> _______________________________________________<br>microsound mailing list<br><a href="mailto:microsound@microsound.org">microsound@microsound.org</a><br>http://or8.net/mailman/listinfo/microsound<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>