29. April 2024

Talk on air

RADIOSTREAM
674FM
Monday / 14.00–16.00 h

English broadcast => https://674.fm/

Michael Allen Z Prime & Susana López aka Susan Drone present their music projects in conversation with Till Kniola and Georg Dietzler. Mushrooms, potted plants, data sonification, bioelectrical music, drones in the arts and sciences. Michael Allen Z Prime is a scientist, ecologist and sound artist, known for his bioelectric music with plants and fungi. Susana López aka Susan Drone is an interdisciplinary artist, presenting compositions, audiovisual installations and immersive concerts.

it’s part of 

cckpt • sound art • 
datasonification 
18. April — 8. Mai 2024 
Düsseldorf • Köln

Installationen •  Performance 

come and listen Do – So  14 – 18 h

WELTKUNSTZIMMER Düsseldorf, Ronsdorfer Str 77a

https://www.gerngesehen.de/cckpt


PERFORMANCES / CONCERTS

28. April 2024  – Düsseldorf

Sunday / 15.00 h

Michael Allen Z Prime & Susana López aka Susan Drone
Mushrooms and Drones

PERFORMANCE
im Rahmen der Ausstellung
DÜSSELDORF — WELTKUNSTZIMMER

Ronsdorfer Str 77a

Eintritt frei – free admission 25 – 28 April


Bioelectric music, the sounds heard follow the electrical activity of the organism in real time. By far the best way to achieve this is to amplify the action potentials generated by the plant or fungus itself. Action potentials are sharp voltage spikes generated by the plant or fungus itself in response to environmental changes or as processes of the organism. Mushroom sounds together with slowly evolving drones and live video – this is what you will experience at the sound performance of the duo Michael Prime and Susana López aka Susan Drone. For more than 30 years, Michael Allen Z Prime has been making music with plants and fungi. His albums: ‚L-Fields‘, ‚One Hour As Peyote‘, and ‚Borneo‘, were the first to be made using the bioelectrical fields of plants and fungi as a sound source. All living things have a bioelectrical field, which fluctuates constantly, according to the state of the organism.  Michael makes the fluctuations in the bioelectrical field audible by first amplifying these small voltages, then using the amplified voltage to control an oscillator. The fluctuations in pitch and rhythm that you hear directly follow the fluctuations of the  bioelectrical field.  Michael Allen Z Prime is a scientist, ecologist and sound artist, known for his bioelectric music with plants and fungi. Susana López aka Susan Drone is an interdisciplinary artist, presenting compositions, audiovisual installations and immersive concerts.


29. April 2024  Monday 20:00 h

COLOGNE / Köln

Michael Allen Z Prime & Susana López aka Susan Drone
Mushrooms, Potted Plants and Drones 

KÖLN — 674FM KONZERTRAUM

674 Konzertraum

Ubierring 13

50678 Cologne

tickets: 10/5 EUR


Bioelectric music, the sounds heard follow the electrical activity of the organism in real time. By far the best way to achieve this is to amplify the action potentials generated by the plant or fungus itself. Action potentials are sharp voltage spikes generated by the plant or fungus itself in response to environmental changes or as processes of the organism. Mushroom sounds together with slowly evolving drones and live video – this is what you will experience at the sound performance of the duo Michael Prime and Susana López aka Susan Drone. For more than 30 years, Michael Allen Z Prime has been making music with plants and fungi. His albums: ‚L-Fields‘, ‚One Hour As Peyote‘, and ‚Borneo‘, were the first to be made using the bioelectrical fields of plants and fungi as a sound source. All living things have a bioelectrical field, which fluctuates constantly, according to the state of the organism. Michael makes the fluctuations in the bioelectrical field audible by first amplifying these small voltages, then using the amplified voltage to control an oscillator. The fluctuations in pitch and rhythm that you hear directly follow the fluctuations of the  bioelectrical field.  Michael Allen Z Prime is a scientist, ecologist and sound artist, known for his bioelectric music with plants and fungi. Susana López aka Susan Drone is an interdisciplinary artist, presenting compositions, audiovisual installations and immersive concerts.