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(Hash Bash - University of Michigan)
Since their beginning in 2015, Cosmic Knot have accomplished a great deal with their music. Playing to crowds of thousands, winning awards, throwing their own festivals, inventing a new genre of music involving plants, climbing and making music with a giant sequoia and hitting the charts with their debut album "Inner Space" are just a few highlights of the band's success.
(Relix Radio Chart)
Their debut album Inner Space hit #7 on the Relix Radio Chart, and continued to maintain a top 30 position on for an incredible 5 months also landing on national college radio's top 500. During that time the album hit the top 20 on multiple radio stations around the country, also reaching #1 on local favorite WYCE.
Listen To Inner Space On Bandcamp
Inner Space is currently in rotation on radio stations around the world with thousands of copies of the album hand distributed to fans at shows around the country.
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The Music Of Cosmic Knot Is Propelled By The Sounds Of Nature. Originally including sounds that Tom recorded out in nature in their first album, Cosmic Knot now incorporates music from the plants and trees themselves.
(Do You Album Session - Third Coast Recording Company)
Playing music with plants is achieved with a special midi instrument called a Music Of The Plants device. This allows plants and trees to make music through electrodes attached to the roots and leaves while they convert their electromagnetic variations into music.
Through recording a plant or trees electromagnetic variations a wave is formed. Each peak of the wave is assigned a musical note which allows the plants and trees to create music in real time with the band.
Presidio In Golden Gate Park - San Francisco, CA
This synergistic relationship with nature and music led Tom to discover a way of playing improvisational music with the Plants and Trees through the aid of the Music Of The Plants Device...
(Aloe Terra And Tom In The Studio )
In other words plants and trees can play music!
The new music genre of plants and trees sitting in with the band has been called
"FLORGANOLEPTIC MUSIC"
Florganoleptic
Flor-ga-no-lep-tic
/ˌflôrɡənōˈleptik/
Definiton:
A genre of music describing the art of plants playing music with people, with the aid of an electronic device...
-Urban Dictionary
The concept has won awards and has been discussed internationally for:
Garden Culture Magazine, Australian podcast - Plants Grow Here,
The Ringing Cedars Of Russia Conferences, Festival Of The Plants In France and more.
You Can Find The Garden Culture Magazine Article that started it all:
~HERE~
After learning to compose music with plants Tom quickly incorporated his findings into Cosmic Knot.
Realizing there was something more to all of this Tom named the new genre Florganoleptic Music
After launching the Florganolpetic Music Genre, Tom was contacted by Mystic Michigan Television asking if they could film a Florganoleptic Music segment on their show. They agreed to film it on the farm where Tom grew up. The segment has now aired on PBS and Amazon Prime.
After The Filming, while discussing a strange occurrence Tom and his friend experienced while playing music in the woods at night, Mark Jagger, host of Mystic Michigan Television told Tom to reach out to the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive. Because of that conversation Mark said it was important to go visit with them.
When Tom arrived at the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive he played music for the first time with ancient coastal redwoods and sequoias trees.
Some of those clones are from trees that are over 3000 years old!
Upon hearing the trees make music Archangel Ancient Tree Archive Founder Dave Milarch said we need to go play with the big trees and hear what they have to say.
In less than 3 months after that meeting the crew was headed for California with hundreds of young sequoias. The idea was to reforest the freshly burnt area with new trees sourced from ancient genetics with the help of he local school kids and then play music with one of the biggest trees out there so everyone could hear the music of a truly ancient tree.
(Sequoia Crest, CA)
After teaching the kids to plant the trees and hear their music Tom climbed the giant sequoia and performed with it. The closest living branch was 200 ft in the air so he had to modify his Music Of The Plants device and climb up 200 ft to attach the leaf electrode so everyone could hear the music of the forest giant.
(Sequoia Crest, CA)
Once the ancient tree was hooked up to the electrodes Tom climbed back into the giant tree and performed with it. The whole event was part of a segment for CNN's 2021 Call To Earth Day.
Since playing music with the giant sequoias tom now travels the country playing what you could now call regular music, but he also makes Florganoleptic music with the ancient trees as they travel with him.
(Frederick Meijer Gardens)
The inclusion of Mother Nature and A=432hz in music is something that is featured throughout Cosmic Knot's first album Inner Space and is a staple for the upcoming albums as well. Not only is the band playing in tune with nature, now Coastal Redwoods, Sequoia trees and plants are playing in the band!
Cosmic Knot was founded on throwing live events. The Wish You Were Here Celebration Of Life was the annual summertime from 2013 to 2019. As things grew a new event began to grow.
Taking root in 2020 the Fest Of All Music Celebration incorporated elements of music, plant music, wild herbal tea foraging, art, yoga, sequoia tree planting ceremonies, and so much more the event quickly grew into Michigan's premiere nature based music festival.
This year will be even better!!!
~Click Here For Details~
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