Plant Tunes

Plant Tunes
Connect with a plant to make music.
Touch a plant to unlock beautiful music. You and a partner create an electrical connection via metal pads and a live plant.
What's Going On?
By touching the plant and both arm rests, you and your partner complete an electrical circuit that’s built into this bench. Both plants and people are mostly made of salty water, which conducts electricity. So the mild electric current flows through you, your partner, and the plant, turning on the music.
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Funded by a generous grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, with additional support from the Troy and Leslie Daniels Fund for Life Sciences.