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Masterplants Orchestra

The Secret Garden offers a refuge— a Cyber-Botanical sanctuary where the listener can reconnect with the earth through the lens of Life-Positive, nature conscious music.

As the human component of Masterplants Orchestra, Tritone utilizes the Beca and MPS-1 biofeedback devices to translate the internal electrical fluctuations of exotic plants into lush, emerald soundscapes.

Every frequency you hear is a direct reflection of the plant’s living electrophysiology, woven into a living ocean of synthesizers and ethereal textures.

released February 8, 2026

How would you describe yourself as an artist? What landscapes, places, or environments have shaped you?

Masterplants: More than anything, what shapes me as an artist is an overwhelming urge to merge with creation itself. to become a creator able to harmonically unfold the purest of creational intents on behalf of something which is greater than the person I appear as.
And to me, the greatest manifestation of that, is nature itself.

Nature is the ultimate everchanging object created by the universe, and being inspired by something not created by humans, something so unbelievably unexplainable as nature and what is beyond  the universe of appearances, seems to be the only way that art can help us expand our minds and perception, which to me is the true purpose of art.
In these times a lot of artistic focus remains intertwined and inspired by the world of thinking related to human activities and I would love to do something else. A gentle musical experiential nudge away from anthropocentric experience. Back into the depth of the unknown truth of nature itself.

How did Masterplants begin — was it sparked by a feeling, a place, or a specific sound? Where did this project physically and mentally take shape?

Masterplants: The idea of Masterplants Orchestra comes from the idea that Plants can be Masters. That they can have the intelligence of a master teacher, which many people like to experience these days by ingesting specific plants and so experiencing new states of consciousness.
In my experience that isn't necessary, because combining Masterplant intelligence with the potential of music and frequencies can certainly create altered states without the need of ingesting any kind of substance. natural or otherwise.
So in a sense the name Masterplants Orchestra could be translated as plant intelligence revealed through music.

Physically the project Began in a Place called Damanhur in Italy, a spiritual community that has a profound philosophy around nature and trees. That’s where we first encountered the plant music and saw the potential to develop it further.

What is your creative process in general?

Masterplants: The first thing I do is always have a big mess of wires and plants on my studio desk. Then I wire up the plants to our plant music devices and take a deep breath (trying not to despair, haha), slow down and become the process. Just letting things be as they need to be. let the becoming act and not get in the way, not getting in the way meaning being aware of my own judgement and let the flow of creation take its place while not disturbing it with my individuality and personal opinions. that usually gives an outcome which i first of all hadn't intended so i find it surprising and amusing. A lot of my practical creative process involves listening to what I am creating and feeling what it evokes in me rather than trying to force my own identity or emotion onto the music. I let the music take me somewhere. If my person is calmed and satisfied with the state of consciousness the music that is being created induces, that is when I know the flow is harmonic. As with plant music in this case we are not trying to create anything that excites. but rather soothes. Which again is the intention of the type of art I want to create, as well as what I see nature create. When applying even a small piece of the supreme harmony of nature to a creative process, the creative process becomes natural.

How does your personal philosophy or worldview show up in your sound?

Masterplants: Well I try to be a learner when I make music, a student, which I guess is the philosophy itself, being open to what nature in me wants to express. Plants have their own electrophysiological systems which ensures that there is always a part of the music that you cannot control, which is a very soothing practice if you accept it.
To invent musical harmonies around the aspect of plant bioelectric signals that is beyond your reach of manipulation. always having that factor of Randomness and playing around that just like in life you gotta play inventively within the game that life constantly throws at you.
So in the type sounds we as an interspecies orchestra make, we try to play harmonically within that framework. To express the harmonic yet living and surprising intentions of nature through music.

How does the natural world influence your work — directly or subconsciously?

Masterplants: The natural world IS our work, I see them as one and the same, so I guess you could say that it's the only influence.
Because we see the deepness of the natural world as all there is, our work as a plant orchestra is an unavoidable extension of that.
Both directly in the actions we take as an orchestra, we record natural sounds and choose sound designs and venues that align with our vision. as well as being open to new subconscious information that arrives from the field of the unknown. Integrating it into the physical manifestation when it needs to.

Are there rituals, habits, or environments that help you enter a creative flow?

Masterplants: Oh definitely. Hermitages always seem to be more conducive to naturally based creativity. The world today is so extremely full of noise, both informational and in sterilized physical spaces that removes us from the nature that has evolved around us and in us for millions of years.
This noise is defined by distorted ideas based on a human ignorance that exists because of the focus on objective reality as opposed to the truth that is our very being and nature itself.
So the physical and internal act of removing myself from the world of human ideas and into the voidfull nature of our inner being and retreating to a peaceful undisturbed physical space is the first ritual if you can call it that. Then also eating raw food and surrounding me with humans that facilitate the creative process, and if i cant do that then try to stimulate creative situations within my immediate experience.

Do you see music as a form of environmental or spiritual communication?

Masterplants: Definitely, but not in the sense of anybody being spiritual or as if a spiritual message has to be maintained there are no rules or anyone enforcing things like that. It happens more in the spirit of unfolding, like a continuous blossoming of sorts. The way a flower is spiritual. The way a flower is integrated into all the natural systems around it. Spiritual in the way of being interlinked and connected with everything, the soil, the water, the air, the insects and the Sun. Now that's spiritual!

Can you explain how your plant music devices function in principle? How do they differ from other plant biofeedback or MIDI conversion devices currently circulating?

Masterplants: Yes, plant music tech functions in two different ways,
Measuring resistance tracks the flow of DC current to monitor the plant's immediate "stress" or thirst levels, much like a traditional lie detector. And measuring capacitance tracks the plant's ability to store an electrical charge, which provides a more stable, high-resolution signal.
We are currently working with both methods.

Resistance is being used in our “SYMPHONY” device, which allows up to 8 plants to play at the same time by the use of 8 electrodes.
And the Brand new Upcoming BECA device developed by the India Engineer Anshul Jain from Fatty Recording co. which will come out as a low cost open source device is using the Capacitance system.

Plant music devices generally differ in the way they interpret or “falsify” the original signal, how many conversions of the original plant signal there are and what kind of conversions.

The fun thing is to make a plant instrument that uses as few conversions as possible while still maintaining plant musicality that fits into the human system of music.

The difference from other devices is that we give native access to the deeper musical parameters of the devices, we want the devices to be for creators rather than for consumers, so no apps, paywalls and gadgetry and more creative access and possibilities.

What was the original impulse behind designing your own system instead of using existing tools?

Masterplants: Simply seeing the extensive unused potential of the technology prompted us to say “hey” wouldn't it be cool if we could make symphonic music, which then led to our first prototypes, and by then we had already fallen down the rabbit whole, and the whole plant music world just opened up, and it is gloriously vast and still full of unused potential so please connect with us if you are interested in plant music, we are always looking for collaborators of all kinds, from business to music and tech, science, education etc.

Have plants ever “behaved” in ways you didn’t anticipate?

Masterplants: Yes (laughing), they do that most of the time, and that has been one of the greatest lessons, how to make music with something that has a completely different intelligence from you. Moving from the human centered anthropocentric worldview into a more ecocentric and biocentrism. Bringing to awareness that music does not have to be focused on human experience, but can take part in the glorification of existence and life as a whole.

How long have you lived in Damanhur, and how has the community shaped you both personally and artistically?

Masterplants: I have lived Physically in Damanhur from 2010 to to 2019 as a community Citizen but because of the necessity to travel for my work as a musician since 2020 i have am what is called a Vajne citizen, which is basically a Damanhurian who lives in the world around the communities of the Federation of Damanhur and usually does some work to bridge the community life with the rest of the world. I do that through the Masterplants Orchestra as well. This is done because Damanhur is a living teaching and not a dead dogma. How is it living? It is practiced through living it in order to experiment with the real life effects of the Damanhurian Knowledge and to find out if these truths of Damanhur are really true to oneself because if you accept something without understanding it for yourself it is just dead dogma or mindless belief.
One of the most prevalent features of Damanhurian culture is Art, if you come visit you will see Art everywhere, many kinds devotional Art that pays homage and is a beautiful hymn to life positive messages, all the divinities that has ever been present on this planet as well as the pointing to the importance of the role of the indigenous people of the earth and their knowledge along with very complex stellar and more esoteric mysteries and riddles.

So to combine the living teaching and the art, the artist then becomes the living art and the outward projection of the artists life and in my case music becomes a living glorification of everything creative and life positive. We put as much as we can of beauty, knowledge, Love and mystery into our art in order to convey the exceptional mystical glory of Life itself.
These among others are some of the considerations I do when creation wants to create through me.

For those unfamiliar, how would you describe the core philosophy of Damanhur?

Masterplants: Wow. Life Positive, Unifying, Altruistic, Alive and Profoundly complex beyond imagination.
Being someone who is reasonably hungry for the mystical side of life I couldn't have imagined what was hiding under the hud of the Damanhurian community.
The vastness of knowledge brought in by Falco the Founder of Damanhur, is not akin to anything I have seen and being esoteric in nature it has to be freely sought after in order to present itself to you. The best way to describe it is by letting people experience the community up close, the community is a living reference to that philosophy as well as the open doorway into the depths of magic knowledge.

The community holds many different spaces, temples, laboratories, forests. Is there a place within Damanhur that feels especially meaningful to your musical work? Why?

Masterplants: Yes, of course. You knew that XD! The Sacred Forest Temple is my one and only true home in the community. I love that Temple deeply and go there everytime I am in Damanhur.
This is where I worked during my time living in Damanhur and where I first time opened my sleepy eyes to the intrinsicate delicacies of the natural world, the world created by the divine without the distortion of ignorant human intervention.

This is also where I experienced plant music for the first time even though at that time I thought nothing of it, it slowly revealed itself to the potential within it. There is always a thankfulness in my music whether live or in the studio towards that Forest Temple.
Every time we create music as Masterplants Orchestra, the Forest Temple opens her natural embrace right there in that space and time, to whoever wants to enter into her.

How would you describe plant communication in simple terms for someone encountering it for the first time?

Masterplants: Plant communication is something that comes more naturally to humans than we believe or think. Our bodies are hardwired physically, emotionally and spiritually into nature itself. We ARE an intrinsic part of nature and therefore we are also nature.
Communicating with Plants or nature is therefore not something strange or external to us. It is something that happens in our very system.

We probably all know how it feels to come from the grey concrete blocks and asphalted streets and go into the forest. That “Aaah” nice feeling. That in itself is plant communication. Your body immediately reconnects with the natural system in which it was supposed to live in had we as humans not sterilized the world with our ignorance.

So that is basic intrinsic communication but what if you would like to have a conversation with other localised entities in nature such as trees or birds or other animals, well we need to step further away than trusting our emotions and our thoughts. Our thoughts are not just ours but instead a layer of creation shared by all being in various degrees, a bird will think differently than you because of the way it is structured and so on.
Human children often grow up away from the natural world and we are taught to believe in history and so called fact which society has invented instead of learning to experience and trust our own experience. So when someone wants to learn to talk to nature, i would say listening with your own nature and trusting what you yourself is experiencing, not what we have been told but trusting your experience, your intuition, emotions and thoughts. Go out in nature and think and feel that you are communicating with nature. It just might be truer than you believe.

How can someone begin engaging in plant communication in their own daily life?

Masterplants: I highly recommend going out in nature because nature is so utterly beautiful that it will overwhelm you. It will be more convincing in its full glory than sitting at home with your house plant, but the houseplant is probably the easiest place to start. Most of us will already have an empathic connection with our house plants and again just be there with them. Have you ever felt like being seen by another human? It can be an intensely beautiful experience. it is the same for any other being, if you notice them and are present with them, a connection will naturally happen. Love is Attention, give it to them and you cannot help but receive reciprocity.

Has your understanding of plant consciousness changed through your musical experiments?

Masterplants: Yes Music has been a great catalyst for my personal understanding of transmission of intention and frequencies and how music is also an expression of a being's vibration, intelligence or lack thereof. In plant music there are so many parts and complexities like the technology, the music or frequencies and how we divide and interact with that as well as the scientific and biological explanations of why plant has the effect that it has. Its an amazing hotch potch of information that if studied you cannot help but notice that something has to be greater than the parts, and coming into a greater awareness of life itself is in my experience the true meaning of art and music. Not entertainment and numbing the mind but stimulating curiosity and expanding understanding and empathy.

Do you feel plants respond differently depending on the emotional state of the human interacting with them?

Masterplants: Yes the funny thing is thinking about how plants respond differently, that also makes us think about our own state of being and how we behave in the company of plants, it is like everyone already knows that being relaxed and light around plants will help the connection with them. It's intrinsic knowledge in us. Even humans react differently to our emotional states but we tend to care less about that because we are stuck together in these pens called cities where everyone has to coexist in an  environment that because of its lack of nature stresses our system on a daily basis, so we just avoid it as much as we can. The plants are doing a good job and reminding us to slow down.

Has working with plant consciousness changed your sense of time?

Masterplants: When I ventured out of the city back in the day and into the forest, plants and nature were the first surroundings that helped me to slow down.
Stravinsky classifies two categories of time, ontological and psychological, ontological time is the baseline of the moving of time as a series of events that simply is the way it is the movement of universal time.
Psychological time on the other hand is the way time is interpreted by our localized minds. It can be fast if you are experiencing many things or feel excited or stressed, or it can feel excruciatingly slow if you feel bored or lost.
Plants live in ontological time, the “real” time of things. and if you slow down enough when you are around them you can see that time as we thought it was, is merely an interpretation of the mind telling you that there is a future or a past or that its this and this o clock. It isnt. There is no time as such and plants know that perfectly well. There is only now and that now is often lost when we start believing in time.

Where do you see the intersection of ecology, spirituality, and technology evolving in the next decade?

Masterplants: There seem to be a planetary competition these days about how quickly we can annihilate and forget anything natural that has ever graced this planet.
This terrible situation has the beautiful function of pushing us to feel very uncomfortable, an uncomfortability that pushes us to seek nature both inside of ourselves and outside.
I think this is going to be even more pronounced as we continuously feel the destruction of our natural habitat which in truth is an extension of our own bodies, we will seek deeper and more beautiful way to resolve the predicament. We will see two parties, one completely oblivious on the path to self destruction and we will see those doing great work in combining the deep inner knowledge of our own spiritual origins into nature, AI and tech.
I dont know how its gonna play out but its gonna be a fantastic spectacle! And the most important part in this is You. Where are you and what is your role in all of this.

What feels sacred to you right now — in music or in life?

Masterplants: The moment! the musical Universe that unfolds right in front of our very eyes is max. sacred! This existence is ablaze with a delicately fierce creativity and sacred vibes to get absolutely consumed by. All it takes is just to immerse yourself and let go for the ride as the sacred takes care of everything already. Start where you are.