Roberto ‘Cigno’ Secchi, a musician, composer and passionate researcher into musical forms, has been interacting with different types of plants for years, leading him finally to produce an album of this music. He says: “In putting together the Music of the Plants CD, I made a selection from the different recordings with a very wide range of plants: from roses to pines, from rosemary to ficus plants, from walnut trees to simple blades of grass. So often we human beings try to interpret everything in terms of our own logic, but when we relate to the plant world, even more so than the animal world, we need to think according to an utterly different logic, one that is quite unknown to us.

We find that there is a great difference between the sounds produced by plants when they are alone and the sounds they make when human beings approach them with the intention of establishing a relationship, even without necessarily touching them.

Roses, for example, respond very well in terms of harmonic variation, and of emotional contact with people, and will produce more or less repetitive sequences that a human musician can easily join in with. Another fascinating point is that, and it can easily be heard in the Music of the Plants CD, while apparently differing only in colour, red roses play completely different notes from white roses, as if they were from planets light years apart. Chestnut trees, Birch trees and Rose-mary bushes, also, emerge as completely unpredictable.

(from “Music of the Plants” book)