Listen to the farm
La Palma & El Tucán · Zipacón, Colombia · 1,700 m
The farm where your coffee grew.
Still recording.
Eighty minutes of it, free — four long recordings, one for each cup of the day. Everything else is here too, a minute at a time.
No sign-up and nothing to install. Headphones help.
How this was made
On the farm, with HILA · Música de las PlantasReal recordings, really arranged. Both are true, and the method is scientific, not mystical.
01The plants are wired
Electrodes on living Geisha, Sidra, Java, banana and chachafruto. Plants run on electricity all day.
02
The signal becomes a score
It is mapped to pitch and rhythm. A plant has no melody — what it has is a cadence.
03Then we arrange it
Field recordings underneath, instruments on top. Some of that with AI tools — on these recordings, never instead of them.
For your coffee ritual
4 recordings · 80 minLong enough to grind, brew and drink without hurrying. These four play in full, start to finish.
Before the first cup
Morning Rain at La Palma
Yours with every bag of coffeeRain at 1,700 m arrives in layers: a hiss through the canopy, then drops on broad coffee leaves, then quiet pooling at the base of the Geisha plants.
While it brews
Cloud Forest Birds
First light, when the canopy is at its busiest. Arranged to stay level: nothing in it asks for your attention.
While you drink it
Coffee Farm Café Ambience
Most café ambience has no idea what a coffee farm sounds like. This one was built on ours.
The last cup of the day
Sunset Birds
Here the hour before dark is the loudest one. Birds quiet all afternoon call across the canopy, the mist thickens, the temperature drops.
The rest of the catalogue
8 tracks · one hour eachEverything else recorded here, a minute at a time. Each one runs a full hour.
To fall asleep
2 tracks · 60 s samplesRecorded through the night, when the plant keeps working and we do not.
Sleep Geisha
A Geisha plant doesn't stop at night. Its signal keeps moving with the temperature drop and the dew, and that is what sits under these textures.
Sleep Java
Java pulses slowly and low. We kept that cadence and built piano and analog pads around it.
To work
2 tracks · 60 s samplesNo melody to follow, no rhythm to tap to. Two varieties at opposite ends of the signal.
Focus Sidra
Fewer than a dozen farms in the world grow Borbón Sidra. Its signal sits high and clean, and the track stays there.
Focus Banano
The banana trees that shade our coffee have a larger vascular system, and a more energetic signal with it: bright and moving forward.
To slow down
2 tracks · 60 s samplesThe shade trees and the water. Both move slower than the coffee.
Meditation Chachafruto
An Andean tree cultivated for centuries before specialty coffee existed. It grows here as shade, and its rhythms are far slower than the coffee beside it.
Creek & Forest Ambience
Small streams run between the coffee, the fruit trees and the primary forest. Not sleep, not focus — the hour in between.
The raw document
2 tracks · 60 s samplesWhere the catalogue started. Closer to the measurement than to music, and left that way.
Geisha Plant Music
The first thing HILA recorded here: millivolt activity from Geisha plants, turned into sound and left alone. Quieter and rougher than the rest, on purpose.
Geisha Plant Bioelectrics
The same plants, read around the clock. Cloud cover and root moisture become slow filter sweeps and drifting pitch.
Everything here was recorded at La Palma & El Tucán, Zipacón, Cundinamarca, at 1,700 m. These are recordings, not a medical device, and we make no health claims for them.