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Meet the Pocket Scíon! 🌱🎛✨
A magical little device that converts bioelectric impulses from the natural world - into sound 💫
Learn more + buy ⤵️

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@notep showcases how she uses the @pocketscion 🍃⚡️

Full set out now on Tuktuk Radio YouTube.

#tuktukradio #pocketscion taken in Chiang Mai, Thailand by @pocketscion

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7 months ago

Firmware update 1.0.1 is now available 🌱

Below is a quick and easy step by step guide of how to update your Pocket Scíon. A video guide is also available by clicking the link in our Instruomodular bio.

1 - Download the latest firmware from instruomodular.com/firmware

2 - Connect one end of a compatible USB cable to your computer (Don’t connect the Pocket Scíon yet)

3 - Press and hold the button on the inside of the Pocket Scíon (see video for exact location)

4 - While still holding the button, connect the USB cable to the Pocket Scíon The Pocket Scíon will now appear as a mass storage device on your computer named “RPI-RP2”

5 - Drag the downloaded uf2 firmware file to “RPI-RP2”

6 - Do not disconnect

7 - Wait for 3ish minutes until the Pocket Scíon reboots (Perhaps have a cup of tea)
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Hoorah! You are up to date.

#pocketscion #update #instruo #modernbiology101 by @pocketscion

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6 months ago

Comment ‘connect’ for more info 🌱🍄🎶 The Pocket Scíon is back in stock! Our first run sold out almost immediately, this next batch is here just in time for the holidays. Pocket-sized and affordable, this instrument converts small changes in electrical activity into sound. Plug into your favorite plants and mushrooms and play music using the 4 onboard instruments or connect via MIDI / USB to your computer, modular, or other synthesizers for endless possibilities.

The Pocket Scíon is an active project - you’ll find new beta firmware on our discord and an active community of users exploring art and science.

We can’t wait to see what you create!

A collaboration between Scottish Instruō Specialist Synthesizers and Canadian musician and biologist Modern Biology

This project was made possible in part by the Government of Canada / Ce projet a été rendu possible en partie grâce au gouvernement du Canada. @cdn.heritage

#synth #mushroom #fungi #plantmusic #pocketscion by @pocketscion

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Toronto: extended until Sept 7!!!! Mushroom Music is at @arcadiaearth 🍄🎶

Immerse yourself in surging hyphal networks, giant amanitas, and a mandala of the 5 divisions of fungi - while creating the soundtrack yourself! Touching the two touchpads connects your bioelectricity to that of our resident mushrooms, triggering notes and rhythms unique to your experience ✨

And when i say ‘my’ new installation I mean ‘our’. Wow! So many amazing people came together to make this magic happen. And it really is magical. The look on people’s faces as they experienced fungal communion for the first time was SO SWEET

Big, big thank you to Craig and the whole Arcadia team for being our partners on this!

Fabricator: Dian @iheartmachinist
Artwork by the incomparable @caro.arevalo
Timelapse videography by the magical @myco_motion
Cutting edge hyphal networks visualized by @spununderground (thank you Toby and Tom!!!)
Mushrooms by @auralisbotanical
Video mapping and animations by @laine_butler
Tech consultation: @ucodia
Creative direction: @viq.design
Endless advice @instruomodular
Team: @jessanderson._ @wenermgmt @midnightagencyinc
This whole installation runs on our little machine, the @pocketscion, heavily modded to run the lighting as well 🎛️

Wowowowowowowowowowowowow come see it before it’s gone.

#synth #mushroom #fungi #mycelium #earth by @pocketscion

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2 months ago

What would an orchestra of plants sound like? 🪴🌱

Thanks to @instruomodular @pocketscion @modernbiology101 - we’ve been answering this question with a series of workshops at @fringebythesea festival in Scotland.

Musical Fun for all ages 💚 two more days to go! Book you slot in advance before they sell out

Follow @plants_can_dance for more taken in Fringe by the Sea by @pocketscion

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2 months ago

This one’s a bop!!! The mysterious and magical ghostpipe 👻 These amazing plants are mycoheterotrophs - like the pinesap plant i plugged into the other day - and FEED by stealing their carbon from fungi. Thus their deathly white colour - they don’t need that green chlorophyl to photosynthesize.

Here i’m using the @pocketscion to transform small electrical changes in the plant into music - and using the @korgofficial iwavestation app on my phone as the sound source.

What are you plugging into these days?

#synth #mushroom #ghostpipe #mycelium by @pocketscion

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3 months ago

Spanish Slug ( Испанский слизень )
Device @pocketscion
Synth Annulus by @imjonas
#biosonification #instruo #ﬂstudio #ambient #pocketscion by @pocketscion

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4 months ago

We LOVE seeing your experiments!

From tomatoes, to iberico ham.
Tulips, fungi and even using light to trigger the device!!!

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What will you plug into next?! 🌱 by @pocketscion

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4 months ago

For your free Easter Lily ringtone or alarm, comment LILY. For hours of Lily for sleep, meditation, focus, play… click the link in my bio :)

Let me explain how this technology works:
Using specialized sensors, I can detect changes in those electrical signals and translate them into musical notes. The plant isn’t creating sound in the way we do—rather, the technology transforms the plant’s bioelectrical activity into music we can hear, offering a unique way to experience the living world around us. For this plant sound, I used the pocket Scion by the incredible @modernbiology101 and worked with @fairyduststudio__ for the magical sound design you hear.

What do you hear in the song of the Easter lily? ✨

Omg the smell the smell! Absolutely intoxicating!! I loveeee Easter lily so much!

This video was shot in the dead of winter in Canada so yes… these are indoor lilies. Outdoor wild lilies coming soon!!!

May we honor all living beings, big and small.
Love, Lila Rose by @pocketscion

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4 months ago

What will you plug into next? 🌱🎛️💫 by @pocketscion

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4 months ago

Brunnera Sibirica ( Бруннера Сибирская )
Device @pocketscion
Vst: Vital
#biosonification #ﬂstudio #ambient #instruo by @pocketscion

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5 months ago

Lilacs in Berlin 💜🎶 I’m just home from our European tour and still recovering from the outrageous garden that Berlin is in the spring - lilacs, horse chestnut trees, rhodos and wisteria EVERYWHERE!

Here using the @pocketscion onboard sounds combined with the @moogsynthesizers animoog - all recorded in a @zoomsoundlab - super fun and portable biosonification setup ✨

Up next - link in bio!
May 30 Asheville @connectbeyondfestival
June 6 Vail @mountaingamesvail
June 27 Nanaimo @marginsofsound
July 13 Vancouver @indiansummerfestival
July 16 Czech Republic @colours_cz

#lilac #flower #garden #nature by @pocketscion

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