When getting ready to give a concert of live plant music, Secchi explains, “it’s essential to enter into harmony with the plants, but not to expect to always get the same notes.

It’s unusual for our vegetable counterparts to be that predictable. A capacity for technical and emotional empathy on the part of the musician brings quality to the concert performance and makes it something truly unique and virtually unrepeatable. When making music together with a plant using the device that we use today, there are certain factors that, as a musician, I will normally take into consideration to obtain good results. Since it is possible to preselect various musical scales, from the technical point of view I find it useful to choose, or at least know, the scale being set on the device at any given moment. This helps me to understand which tonality the impulses from the plant will be translated into, to be able to prepare myself accordingly, including in terms of the instrument I intend to use, normally a keyboard. If on the other hand I decide to use the thrill of surprise as my only inspiration, I prefer not to have this information.

(from “Music of the Plants” book)