Ready to float into the Mycelium network? Tosca Teran has been placing pic-up mics, transducers, bone conductors onto surfaces, inside molds, buried in soil for about a decade now. Bio-Sonification to him is a way to connect people with nature, with nonhumans through sound. Sounds heard and felt create a lasting memory.
Biodata Sonification is a process to translate complex real-time sensor data into musical notes and controls, exploring auditory sensory modality to provide insights into invisible phenomenon.
These experiments involve placing electrodes onto mycelium, which send impulses that are converted into Midi data. This is then plugged into AniMoog, a polyphonic synthesizer. Simply put, this is Midnight Mushroom Music, Mycelium Network's first radio, on air since 2018. Non-human lullabies. Non-human music collaborations.
This project is part of Nanotopia, which works with bringing fungi biodata, fungi frequencies into mixed reality installations, VR is to speak of our shared environment, humankind's Other-than-human entanglements.
What do you think? Close your eyes and float on.
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