Konser Plantasia by Bottlesmoker

The inspired came by Mort Garson on his album; Mother's Earth Plantasia, we made Konser Plantasia (Plantasia Concert), which only plants being our audiences on the concert. Reacted to Covid-19 pandemic which isn’t allowing crowds, we made 90 minutes music show for plants, publics weren’t allowed to watch on the venue.

We have probed deeply some of the research about music affects to plants and refined them into one music composition that improves plants’s growth. The component of classic music, string element, evade low frequencies, melodies repetitive, tuning 423hz to audio frequency of 5000hz became choices to be heard ahead of plants audiences.

But not only that, we also took on a history of Indonesian culture that has a special connection to rice plants, such the sound of Karinding which can ridding vermin to the Tarawangsa which used in the rituals toward Dewi Sri as the goddess of rice.

The plant owner came to the venue just to dropped the plants, after they got the plants details, the plants stored inside the venue for the concert. The plant owner left the venue and they were granted for live streaming access to supervice their plants during the show. After the concert, they came back to pickup the plants and was given an audio file so they could play it back at their house.

On the show, we successfully done built a different concert during Covid-19 pandemic. Some of the plants which came to the concert responded directly, such the flowers bloom faster, the cayenne was ripe faster until the leaves bloom more greener.

Once carried out in Bandung, July 25, 2020, Konser Plantasia will come in several Indonesia’s cities to continue the tour. The concept of this show is giving expanse for us to keep in work on music during pandemic also it becomes an expansion for their fans who are also have the plants to interact directly through music. Because plants become an important part of daily life, as friends, as family and as the source of life.

Bottlesmoker is a music project by Anggung Suherman (Angkuy) and Ryan Nobie Adzani, from Bandung, Indonesia. Bottlesmoker has been doing lots of experiment in the songs making using toy musical instrument and custom equipment, so the sounds that produced were so unique with a hint of a pop music taste that is so catchy, and unique at the same time.

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