Sonic Youth, Ariel Pink, Animal Collective Members, Jim O'Rourke, Yoko Ono, More Make Music for Plants

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Back in 2002, artist Peter Coffin began his Music for Plants series of installations. It was inspired by The Secret Life of Plants, a 1973 book that combined science with New Age techniques to argue that plants could "hear" sound—and that, theoretically, one could make music for them just as music is made for human beings. 

Over the next twelve years, Coffin compiled two volumes of "plant" music, enlisting artists like Sonic Youth, Ariel Pink, Animal Collective's Deakin and Geologist, Jim O'Rourke, Yoko Ono, Alice Coltrane, Black Dice, Nico Muhly, Boredoms' EYE, and Laurie Anderson to try their hand at composition. You can listen to the first two volumes below. 

A third volume is in the works that will feature artists such as Kelela, Arto Lindsay, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Teengirl Fantasy, Bernie Worrell, Martin Rev of Suicide, Charlemagne Palestine, and more. The artists have been recording at Red Bull Studios in New York City, where Coffin is currently exhibiting his Living installation. The installation features a greenhouse, where the first two volumes have been played on rotation for the plants inside. Living concludes on September 16; the tracks for the third volume will be compiled and released this fall.

Below, watch a video created by Coffin, soundtracked by L-Vis 1990's contribution to Volume 3, via Dazed Digital.

Read more about the Music for Plants series here on Dazed Digital. 

You can listen to the first two volumes below. 

Volume 1:

Volume 2:

L-Vis 1990:

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