This compact disc presents eight five-minute tracks. Each track was produced by utilizing only botanic materials and rhythmic systems.

Each of seven tracks details a particular botanical group: Fungi, Lichens, Algae, Bryophytes, Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. The eighth track consists of a simultaneous compilation of the prior seven (henceforth) group-tracks.

Each botanical group-track is comprised of ten non-recurring genera. For each genera, one species was chosen. For each species, two items exhibiting the same morphological trait were utilized.

Each surface of these two items was percussively applied to each surface of the other and the resulting sounds were recorded. All recordings were made at a fixed volume level and were removed of their reflective and reverberant sounds.

To produce a (henceforth) species-track, each species’ recorded sounds were temporally organized relative to a recurring system:

1. A five-minute track of silence was created.

2. Recorded sounds were inserted within the monitered five-minute track of silence as the volume of non-recurring environmental noises of a non-recurring source exceeded a pre-determined threshold.

To produce a group-track, the ten, group specific, five-minute species-tracks were simultaneously compiled. This simultaneous compilation was achieved by:

1. Alphabetically organizing each group’s species-tracks.

2. Spatially organizing this alphabetical arrangement within the stereo-field from left to right and at consecutive twenty-degree intervals from the center.

Each group-track’s specific and simultaneous compilations of its species-tracks can be arranged, listed and presented as follows:

Track One - Fungi



100° Left: Amanita muscaria
80° Left: Clavaria zollingeri
60° Left: Craterellus cornucopioides
40° Left: Cyathus striatus
20° Left: Ganoderma lucidum
20° Right: Geastrum fimbriatum
40° Right: Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginiana
60° Right: Lycoperdon pyriforme
80° Right: Peziza badia
100° Right: Strobilomyces floccopus

Track Two - Lichens



100° Left: Anzia colpodes
80° Left: Cladina rangiferina
60° Left: Cladonia rei
40° Left: Haematomma accolens
20° Left: Lasallia papulosa
20° Right: Parmelia squarrosa
40° Right: Tuckermanopsis fendleri
60° Right: Umbilicaria mammulata
80° Right: Usnea hirta
100° Right: Xanthopamelia plittii

Track Three - Algae



100° Left: Ascophyllum nodosum
80° Left: Chondrus crispus
60° Left: Codium fragile
40° Left: Fucus vesiculosus
20° Left: Gracilaria verrucosa
20° Right: Grinnellia americana
40° Right: Laminaria agardhii
60° Right: Sargassum filipendula
80° Right: Sphaerotrichia divaricata
100° Right: Ulva lactuca

Track Four - Bryophytes



100° Left: Amphidium mougeotii
80° Left: Brachythecium rutabulum
60° Left: Funaria hygrometrica
40° Left: Hygrohypnum luridum
20° Left: Leucobryum glaucum
20° Right: Marchantia polymorpha
40° Right: Polytrichum commune
60° Right: Porella platyphylloidea
80° Right: Pseudoscleropodium purum
100° Right: Sphagnum capillifolium

Track Five - Pteridophytes



100° Left: Asplenium trichomanes
80° Left: Dennestaedtia punctilobula
60° Left: Dryopteris spinulosa
40° Left: Equisetum arvense
20° Left: Lycopodium annotinum
20° Right: Polypodium vulgare
40° Right: Polystichum acrostichoides
60° Right: Pteridium aquilinum
80° Right: Pteris cretica
100° Right: Selaginella apoda

Track Six - Gymnosperms



100° Left: Abies balsamea
80° Left: Cedrus libani
60° Left: Chamaecyparis obtusa
40° Left: Cryptomeria japonica
20° Left: Ginkgo biloba
20° Right: Larix decidua
40° Right: Metasequoia glyptostroboides
60° Right: Picea abies
80° Right: Pinus strobus
100° Right: Tsuga canadensis

Track Seven - Angiosperms



100° Left: Acer saccharum
80° Left: Betula papyrifera
60° Left: Carya ovata
40° Left: Fagus grandifolia
20° Left: Gleditsia triacanthos
20° Right: Juglans nigra
40° Right: Liquidambar styraciflua
60° Right: Magnolia glauca
80° Right: Platanus occidentalis
100° Right: Quercus alba

Track Eight - Compilation