Auntie Flo: Making plants dance

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Brian D’Souza, aka Auntie Flo, is a Scottish musician, DJ and sound recordist who has played at some of the biggest festivals and clubs around the world. His compositions fuse field recordings from around the globe with cutting edge production techniques to transport the listener to different places and states. He has spent the last few years trying to bring together the natural and electronic worlds, experimenting with a complex setup of sensors and synthesisers to create music from plants. Last year he released an EP called Mycorrhizal Funghi that sampled the sounds of four different mushroom species and a full-length album called In My Dreams (I’m A Bird And I’m Free), built from field recordings and genres from across the world. Tom Raine follows Brian on a trip to Kenya and Goa to conduct field recordings and create plant music for a brand-new album and a listening app he is developing. This episode of The Documentary, comes to you from In the Studio, exploring the processes of the world’s most creative people.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service,
0:06.8	the programme that investigates the process of the world's most creative minds.
0:11.3	I'm Tom Rain, a broadcaster and audio producer,
0:14.9	and I'm following Brian D'Souza, a musician, DJ and sound recordist.
0:20.8	It's the 10th of February 2025, and he's just moved house.
0:25.3	He's in the process of building a new studio in his shed.
0:28.8	But that's not the reason I'm here.
0:31.3	In seven days' time, Brian is going on a huge worldwide recording trip
0:35.1	at a time in his career where his focus has completely changed.
0:41.3	Hey Brian, how are you doing?
0:43.2	How's it going?
0:43.9	Very good.
0:44.6	Nice to see you again.
0:45.8	Good to see you.
0:47.9	Thanks are having me.
0:49.1	Welcome to the new house.
0:51.1	Oh, wow, my gosh.
0:53.6	It's a bit of, well, a building site, essentially, isn't it? It's a mark of
0:57.9	progress for sure. Brian was brought up in Glasgow, Scotland, and has had a career in music for the last
1:04.4	10 years. He's played at some of the biggest festivals and clubs across the globe, and his music,
1:10.0	under the alias anti-flow
1:11.5	combined sounds from different places with cutting-edge production techniques to transport
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