Plant Music in Nature Album by Shane Mendonsa

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!

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House Plants: Generative Plant Music Album Notes by Shane Mendonsa

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.

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Signs of Life - Herb Garden : Generative Plant Music by Shane Mendonsa

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.

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Welcome to SPAO! by Shane Mendonsa

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!

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Watch Placebo by Shane Mendonsa

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.

Storyteller.Inc

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

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