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Sound designer Skooby Laposky believes plants are meant to be heard

WBUR | By Andrea Shea
Published October 20, 2025 at 11:43 AM EDT
Sound designer and artist Skooby Laposky stands by a copper beech tree he used in a long term recording project in Cambridge, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)
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Sound designer and artist Skooby Laposky stands by a copper beech tree he used in a long term recording project in Cambridge, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Sound designer Skooby Laposky amplifies the sounds of plants by attaching electrodes to leaves to then process and amplify their biorhythms to provide a musical representation of their electrical activity.

WBUR’s Andrea Shea reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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