Plants used as musical instruments
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Plants used as musical instruments
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Live plants have been used as musical instruments, especially in electronic music. Live plants can be used as electronic musical instrument by running a weak electric current through them and by amplifying the way the current is changed when the plants are touched, or by applying contact microphones and amplifying the projection and tone of the sounds produced when handling them. John Cage composed Child of Tree (1975) and Branches (1976) for what he described as "amplified plant materials". Cag
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