The Seed Knows - composer Carmen Braden talks (Duo Concertante commission for violin+piano)

"What is a seed? A promise, a hope, the start of something new. It's also the end of what came before, a message for the future, blueprints, instructions.There is a mystery and also a simplicity to a seed. It is one of the most confident and clear and astounding parts of our ecosystem that I can think of.

I wrote The Seed Knows with an ear towards today's and tomorrow's ecological concerns, my own growing family, and fascinating research on plant sentience.You'll hear a repeating note in the piano - this is the core of the seed. It is surrounded by enveloping harmonies - almost symmetrical! Flaws exist in the symmetry - it allows for evolution.The violin echoes and amplifies the seed core with vibrant and shifting timbres, and rises slowly up from the core. Plant seeds, human seeds, idea seeds - we must trust the knowledge contained in these almost-perfect beings."

[theonelc]

Should sounds amazing, in the theme of your book have you read "The Secret life of Plants"? Might be hard to find, I first read it close to fifty years ago.