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New Commute Magazine · Aug 29, 2026

Plantasia at 50

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Fifty years on from Mort Garson's strangest and most beloved creation, a two-day conservatory festival asks what it means to make music that doesn't need a human audience.

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There’s a persistent piece of (and possibly bogus) vinyl mythology that Mother Earth’s Plantasia was once handed out as a promotional gift when you bought a mattress at a Sears department store in the mid-1970s. The specifics of how a novelty record commissioned by a Los Angeles houseplant shop ended up bundled with boxed springs in suburban anchor stor…

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