Shane Mendonsa | MUSIC

Live Sessions with Plants

From May to December, 2022, I set out to co-create songs with local plants in and around Ottawa, Ontario, using modular synthesizers.
What resulted was not just eight songs, but a meditative exploration of my relationship with nature. So much of the project required spontaneity, intuition and leaps of faith. Mother Nature reciprocated generously!

With synthesizers and sensors, a musician turns the pulse of the life of plants into beautiful music.

I'd love to invite you to join me over Equinox weekend for the free Plant Spirit Herbalism Summit: On the Healing Wisdom of Herbs and Plant Consciousness Get your free pass here!

My talk on [Co-creating Music with Nature] will happen on March 18, 2022, 6:30 PM EDT I hope you will join me!

House Plants: Generative Plant Music is the second album in a series called Signs of Life, a deep dive into plant music.

It is an artistic endeavour to revive our lost connection with nature and invariably discover more about who and what we truly are. We are only separated from nature because we’ve forgotten our relationship with it. This series invites you to rediscover that connection.

House Plants is a collaboration between myself and a collection of plants from my home. My role was to choose musical elements like notes, instruments and timbres that I felt suited the raw electrical data outputted by the plant. I chose creative parameters for each song, and then left it to the plant to perform the song. The resulting song depended on the strength and quality of the electrical output from the plant at the time of the recording.

This album features Eucalyptus, Jade Finger, Snake Plant and Ripple Jade.

Herb Garden: Generative Plant Music is the first album in a series called Signs of Life, a deep dive into plant music.

It is an artistic endeavour to revive our lost connection with nature and invariably discover more about who and what we truly are. We are only separated from nature because we’ve forgotten our relationship with it. This series invites you to rediscover that connection.

Herb Garden is a collaboration between myself and a collection of plants from my home. My role was to choose musical elements like notes, instruments and timbres, that I felt suited the raw electrical data outputted by the plant. I chose creative parameters for each song, and then left it to the plant to perform the song. The resulting song depended on the strength and quality of the electrical output from the plant at the time of the recording.

Proud to announce that Hutatma, the series i had the pleasure of scoring has one the best Series and actress award at the Maharashtra Times Awards 2021!

Nestled in the heart of the Nation’s capital, SPAO is one of Canada’s leading photographic arts centres. SPAO is home to the only two-year photographic arts diploma in Canada, a unique international artist residency and an independent and critical gallery space dedicated to photographic and video art.

Explore our beautiful facility in a video created by Susannah Heath-Eves with music by Shane Mendonsa!

Curator Kosisochukwu Nnebe speaks to the themes, questions and intentions behind "They Forgot That We Were Seeds," on view at Carleton University Art Gallery from 9 February - 15 March, 2020.

I approached the #westworldscoringcompetition2020 as an experimental mash-up of my own style with different film genres I grew up with in India.

Archana Phadke and Avani Rai’s ‘Panpompar’ (moth) is a short film produced by Quint which provides an insight on the lives of the innocent children of Kashmir. - The Quint

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'Jugaad' is a feature length documentary that explores and celebrates the enduring human spirit in Mumbai, India’s Promised Land, through a mosaic of stories about people from different communities. The word 'jugaad' means creative problem solving.

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A Chalk and Cheese Production In collaboration with Rohan Ramanna and Yohann Marshall for the Salvage Audio Collective.

In one of the toughest undergrad schools in the world, a film maker infiltrates a complex mindscape of ambition and restless youth. In the hallways of excellence, something sinister is at work- and those who inhabit them, must fight these monsters within.

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A National Award Winner for Best Investigative Film 2018 & Winner of the Special Jury Prize at EBS.