Helen Anahita Wilson returned to Tickbird&Rhino @ the Devereux Pub for an intimate evening of interspecies music mixed with great conversation.

This time around Helen showed us where her research has taken her since last we met, sharing snippets/tracks from her latest project — eat me don’t eat me — an album made in collaboration with the Solanaceae nightshade family of plants.

Using plant activity, biodata, bioelectricity and genetic code from the common or garden potato to the deadly hallucinogenic devil’s trumpet, Helen works with these edible, medicinal and downright deadly plants to explore how their properties may be imbued in music.

Eschewing the usual sonification of plants, Helen’s work expresses the potent powers from our natural world using contemporary compositional techniques. She showed us how she gathers the information she works with and even brought along a few plants to "play", illustrate each plant's unique electro-chemical signature. And then she passed her kit around the room and we each got the chance to hear our own.

It was a lively and fantastic evening!