Plants Can Dance

Plants Can Dance (and Mushrooms Sing) is a new monthly Sunday event series from award-winning sound artist and DJ Brian d'Souza aka Auntie Flo in collaboration with Lamine Toure from Repot Plant Shop, Hackney Wick.

Each event will begin with a series of Workshops and Talks allowing audiences to understand the process, dig into the science and have a play with a variety of easy-to-use tools that create music from nature. It will be followed by a Deep Listening experience where they are encouraged to immerse themselves in the realtime audio-visual plant soundscape, leaving their phones in their pockets. It will conclude with a ‘Plant Dance’ - a social element where everyone can let loose and have some fun surrounded by a mix of plants supplied by Repot.

Brian d’Souza currently runs the A State Of Flo label and substack blog, focusing on the biological basis for music, new ecosystems and the creation of novel acoustic ecologies which bridge the gap between the natural world and the electronic music one. As Auntie Flo, he recently released his fourth album 'In My Dreams (I'm A Bird And I'm Free)' which included the hit single 'Green City' - the follow up to the award-winning 'Radio Highlife' released with Gilles Peterson's Brownswood. His nature based music has been featured on the BBC World Service, 6Music, V&A, UN Oceans Conference, Discovery Channel, Tate Modern, Glastonbury, National Trust and more.

Presented by Studio 9294.

This is an 18+ event