Modern Biology's Field Trip

I love helping people reconnect with nature through sound and vibration.

For the last 5 years, I’ve been plugging plants and mushrooms into synthesizers and hosting events all over the world! From Wonderfruit festival in Thailand to the New York Botanical Garden. At this critical time for our planet (and our species. and all of the other species!) I think it’s more important than ever to tune into the More Than Human. I find that music and community is a powerful way of doing this reconnecting.

I grew up studying biology at school and playing Indian classical music at home. Somehow during the pandemic I became fascinated with the world of ‘plant music’ - which has been happening since the 1970s. I’ve been obsessed ever since.

About 6 months ago I released my own portable little plant synthesizer with my friends at Instruō Synthesizers in Scotland. It’s called the Pocket Scion. I now spend a fair amount of my time working on improving the hardware and software and designing group citizen science experiments we can do to build community around nature and discover more about our living world.

I’m deeply influenced by the custodians of the land where I live - the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. My friend Leigh Joseph from the Squamish Nation wrote a book called Held By The Land. I use that phrase as a prompt for my events. What would it feel like to be held by the land? What does it feel like to belong?