Solarium Songs: A New Album Composed with Living Plants
I'm happy to share my new album Solarium Songs with the world today.
Released in celebration of Summer Solstice, we welcome the sun with open arms.
For months, I worked closely with plants like Bromeliad, Yucca Elephantipes, and Crassula ‘Springtime’, capturing their bio-electrical signals and translating them into sound. These signals shaped the textures and direction of each piece through analog synthesis and electroacoustic processing, creating immersive botanical soundscapes that reveal a hidden layer of natural life.
To mark the release, I’ve made a few limited edition cassettes and artist lathe-cut 7”s available now on Bandcamp.
Take a moment to unwind, reset, and listen.
Solarium Songs is everywhere: Streaming Links
'Surfacing' b/w 'Seedlight' | Square 7" lathe-cut record · 33 ⅓ RPM · MONO
Hand-cut on clear polycarbonate with duotone printed labels. Packaged in an archival rice-paper inner sleeve and housed in a tip-on outer jacket made from recycled 18pt kraft stock, featuring full-color photography exclusive to this edition. Each copy includes a unique 4×4" cyanotype solar print by Matthew Hiram, created with sunlight and water. Housed in a translucent glassine envelope, from a hand-numbered limited series of 11.
'Slow Growth' b/w 'Solarium Song' | Real-time duplicated to Analogue Pro Hi-Fi Ferro stock. Frosted white shell c36 with green ink imprint comes packaged with full color 3-panel J-card, housed in a heavy-duty vintage style Norelco case. Limited hand-numbered edition of 44 copies.
Where to Listen & Support:
Stream ‘Solarium Songs’ on your favorite music service: https://ffm.to/hiram
Support directly with high quality downloads and merch at Bandcamp.
Share with a friend who loves plants, or appreciates meditative music.
Add ‘Solarium Songs’ to your favorite Summer / Sunny Day / Plant Vibes playlists.
Get in touch! Drop a comment, or message me on Blue Sky. I’d love to hear what you think.
Thanks for listening.
- Matthew Hiram 🌿✨
