For my master's degree final project at the University at Buffalo, I developed "A Plant's Song." This project involved creating an Arduino script to interpret vibrations from TENS units attached to plants. My Arduino Uno board received these vibrations, converting them into data for Grasshopper. I then split this data into two streams: one for MIDI information and another for numerical values representing velocity, pitch, and tone. The MIDI data directly translated these values into musical notes within Ableton Live, allowing the plant's vibrations to create music. Simultaneously, these same velocity, pitch, and tone values were used in my Grasshopper script to control a virtual fabric displayed in a HoloLens. This fabric dynamically reacted to the plant data, being pulled, pinched, or tensioned based on the varying velocity, pitch, and tone.
