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Sound designer Skooby Laposky believes plants are meant to be heard

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Andrea Shea

October 20, 2025

Sound designer and artist Skooby Laposky stands by a copper beech tree he used in a long term recording project in Cambridge, Mass. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)

Sound designer Skooby Laposky amplifies the sounds of plants by attaching electrodes to leaves to then process and amplify their biorhythms to provide a musical representation of their electrical activity.

WBUR's Andrea Shea reports.

This segment aired on October 20, 2025.

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