“But what if there’s another way? We’re clearly starving for something different online. A 19-minute ambient song with a static image of a whale has 3.1M views on YouTube – people choosing to spend nearly 20 minutes with literally nothing happening while the rest of the platform optimises for peak stimulation. This is evidence of a deep hunger for ‘digital quiet’. Online spaces that offer contemplation instead of consumption.”
This from “The Restaurant with No Music” by Simon James French.
He also linked to this Google Doc called ‘Ambient-ish music to do work to,’ with all sorts of links to playlists and albums and.. Plants.fm??
That’s right – there’s a device you can buy called Plant Wave.
“PlantWave measures biological changes within plants, graphs them as a wave and translates the wave into pitch.
With PlantWave, every single note you hear is a real-time expression of a shift in a plant. The more active a plant is at any particular moment, the more notes you’ll hear. When a plant is less active, it will often drone or even stop producing notes.”
I literally just want to hook one of these up to a plant next to a creek, set up my camera, and take a nap for an hour.