Everything was born with a question that the founders of Damanhur asked themselves, over 40 years ago: “What if plants could interact in a sentient way with the environment and therefore also with human beings? What if it were possible to communicate with them, perhaps through emotions transmitted with music?”

At the end of the 70s Oberto Airaudi, founder of Damanhur, and his fellow researchers, researched bioelectric processes that are conducted by plants, trees and flowers. They discovered that the conductivity is a core indicator of the life force of plants generating key pathways for water, minerals, and other nutrients within trees and flowers. It is this electronic process that is sensed by the unique, innovative device that Damanhurians use in their experiments on the consciousness of the plant world.

Damanhur’s extensive research demonstrates how living organisms respond intelligently to their environment, and is confirmed by an earlier U.S. based study by scientists whose findings are detailed in a book entitled The Secret Life of Plants. Plants respond in very sophisticated ways to both physical and intellectual stimuli. The data derived from these studies demonstrates that Plants communicate with each other through shifts in their conductivity – shifts that, until now, humans were not able to detect or understand.

They discovered that the electrical behavior of plants could be captured using a probe, electrodes, and a device. This combination of electronic components “translates” the signals being conducted by living Plants into musical sound. The pulse streams of each organism are unique, with each Plant manifesting its own individual biological ‘signature sound.’