No really it's the plants

Okay folks hold tight Lono has some real weirdness to impart upon you tonight. Sit down and hear a really weird story and maybe an idea for bump Bonnaroo up a notch and make it weirder then anything else. You all are used to entertaining my eccentricities over the years so I will just lay this all out for all of you. As a lot of people know on here I am a huge Tool fan. That being said I am also a fan of their artwork. Especially the Alex Grey artwork. I have even went so far as to contact Sproat and some other about a hypothetical trip to New York to eventually check out the Chapel Of Sacred Mirrors. Alex Grey wound up doing a photo book on this weird (in a good way like I would approve of) place in Italy called Damanhur. Basically this place looks like what would happen if you let Burning Man go year round and not destroy the structures. Indeed it is listed by the UN as a heritage type site. They even inside of Italy have their own currency. It is interesting but they have a new type of technology and that is specifically what I am looking into as I have never seen it live and would like to at some point. I am sure some of you would to.

In 2006, Mileece was commissioned by the London School of Economics to develop a “generative plant biofeedback system”. She discovered a way to make sounds out of the electromagnetic impulses of plants and is now creating a website to host data-streams from specimens all over the world.

Making music from plants is also being explored by the Edinburgh band Found in a project in May at the Scottish capital’s Royal Botanic Garden. Dialogues of Wind and Bamboo will involve the five-piece improvising around a midi-controller “operated” by plants, turning the electrical resistance generated by flora into beats and bleeps.

Scientists are increasingly reaching out to musicians to engage the public in their work. In 2002, Mira Calix, who is signed to Warp Records, was commissioned by Geneva’s Museum of Natural History to compose a piece of music from the sounds of 150 different species of insects. The result, Nunu, was performed live with the London Sinfonietta at the Royal Festival Hall. She is now working with David Rothenberg, Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, on a “remix” of the songs of beluga whales.

Okay what does this mean for us? basically we can play the plants on the farm if the equipment was available or they got an artist that could. Would it say be awesome to say turn any plant on the farm into a performer? I do not even know where I am really going with this thread it is such a weird thing? I am not sure how much equipment would cost for this type of thing. Or even how much sucha performe would command for a performance having to have them brought in from Italy. Or if there is even such a skilled amateur who even dabbles in Chlorophyll performance. I just know this should be shared and thought over and perhaps even demanded?