Over a decade of making plant music, followers of Patitucci’s work with Data Garden and PlantWave often asked, “what would marijuana music sound like?” Now, finally, we have an answer.

Earlier this spring, Patitucci was invited by leading cannabis brand, Old Pal Provisions, to visit one of their partner grow facilities, Ladybug Farms, in Royal Oaks, CA to tune into cannabis plants and make some music.

It was there that Old Pal’s HiFi Lemon plants were fitted with a PlantWave, which translates plant biodata into music, a process called “sonification.” Joe designed instruments and sounds for the cannabis plant to play and used PlantWave as a MIDI controller, allowing the plant to select every single note. Joe, then, altered the textures of those instruments on-the-fly, creating the first ever album in collaboration between a cannabis plant and a human. The elaborate score resulting from this visit was used to compile the album, 420hz: Plant Music from Cannabis Plants. 

The lyrical nature of the melodies from cannabis plants are, at times, surprisingly catchy. This is demonstrated most clearly on tracks 1-4, which are shorter edits that highlight some of the best bits of music recorded at the farm. Track 5, HiFi Lemon, is a document of the full recording session, named after the strain of the plant collaborator on the recording.

All instruments on 420hz were scaled to the key of G# (415hz) and pitched up to 420hz in post-production. There is nothing pre-recorded on the album. The resulting compositions are offered to the public in the hopes of inspiring new visions of what future collaborations between humans and nature might yield.

Joe Patitucci - Know You're Healer

Like a new construction over an existing old monument, I constructed this piece that "sits on top of" a minuet by Bach. 
I call it "Baustelle," which is German for "Construction Site." 
The original Bach (BWV 829) begins at 2'23''

Recording and © by Swiss Radio SRF2 

"Baustelle" Live in Ynight Basel 18.9.2014

Steve Reich - 18 Musicians

Vid: https://youtu.be/57qdo_SskKE
live single-track solo guitar improvisation
(JazzBlaster/Timefactor/2880/Vox)
played and recorded to hand-held Zoom H1 on 05.16.2016
post-processed (Ableton Live) 05.18.2016
etokle, los angeles ca

Melancholy Über Alles

Blue Filter

Plastic

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Thousands of Eyes in the Dark

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The Perishable Imagination

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