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The right music can thus have a positive influence on the growth of plants. And dependent on the frequency level, playtime and repetition of the sound it can either stimulate cell renewal (growth) or cause cell degradation (shrinkage and atrophy). As audio waves travel through space these vibrations can penetrate the organic cells. These vibrations - also referred to as frequencies - can be physically felt, as one experiences standing very close to a loudspeaker at a concert. However, what we can do is observe how the plants react to the music or, better yet, how plants react to audio vibrations we humans call music. Obviously, we as human beings do not have the same senses as plants and therefore will always be constricted to the basic five human senses in which we experience the world around us. Of course it is impossible for us humans to know if our vegetative companions actually ‘listen’ to the music played to them, let alone whether they particularly like or despise certain genres or songs. Inspired by these curious experiments, The Secret Life of Plants experiments at Mediamatic explores the effects of musical stimulation on the well-being of plants. The Secret Life of Plants - Giulia Menicucci

Although these experiments have on many occasions been dismissed as pseudoscience, they do suggest that plants have a richer way of interacting with the environment than is commonly believed. The book casts light on the rich psychic universe of plants, and explores among many things their response to human care and nurturing, their reaction to music, ability to communicate with humans, curative powers and even lie-detector abilities. A remarkable collection of experiments is summarized in the 1975 publication ‘The Secret Life of Plants’ written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. This kind of ‘secret plant behaviour’ has been researched before in the seventies.