Cant(a)eiro e Flormiga

Report on Two Educational Projects Based on Musical Plants

Abstract

Since early in our history plants have been perceived as quiet and static living beings due, among other reasons, to
a radically different rhythmic cadence of life from that of humans. In the last decades, we have witnessed studies that
reveal that plants are neither silent nor motionless. The projects that will be reported in this paper are sustained on that
idea, that is, acknowledging plants as invaluable allies on a path to a more conscious relationship with the planet that both
us humans and plants share. The Cant(a)eiro project, which has a greater inclination towards musical performance and
musical education; the Flormiga project, which addresses sound design inspired by organic processes. Both projects aim
to provide new ways of relating music practices and music education, particularly through interaction with plants, as well
as promoting sensitive bonds between students in school contexts and nature.