This is what Masterplants Orchestra does. And since 2018, they have performed more than 80 concerts across the United States, India, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Africa — from the International Plant Music Festival in Paris to the Hippocrates Wellness Center in Florida, with no two performances sounding alike.
The Founders
Masterplants Orchestra was founded in 2018 by Tritone Crisantemo, Benjamin Jamily, and Zigola Pioppo — three artists with a singular, ambitious goal: to develop a way for the botanical world to speak through sound.
Tritone is the driving force of the project. A musician, sound designer, and researcher, he has spent years merging his background in sound design with a deep love for the natural world. His approach is rooted in a simple but radical premise — that plants are not passive decoration but active participants, capable of shaping music when given the tools to do so.
Where early plant music was intimate and contemplative — a single plant, a single listener — Masterplants Orchestra is symphonic. At their largest performances, up to eight plants play simultaneously through a multi-speaker system, their individual electrical signals woven together into what unmistakably sounds like an ensemble