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Green
Music:
Over
four days in late June 1976, while open to the public,
six large plants in the center of the glass Plant Conservatory
in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, produced an
audible, live digital music score, based on bio-electric
sensing of their responses to light, temperature, movement
and other physio-environmental factors (using gold needle
electrodes at the base of the stem and root). This was
John Lifton’s interactive “Green Music”
composition and installation.
Amid the ‘tropical garden’ stood a five foot
high rack of audio and digital processing systems, including
the just purchased, Altair 8800, which John was constantly
(re)programming in Machine Language.
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