Midnight Mushroom Music

After a day of rest we are back to MIDI and Bio-Sonifications. This afternoon I have had various mosses hooked up with electrodes and the slime mould growing on the agar heart! Which will upload this Wednesday! Meanwhile, I am sifting through the midi data looking for patterns...

Science Rendezvous! Further details at www.toscateran.com or iTunes Midnight Mushroom Music Podcast

Leading up to our installation taking place this Saturday, May 12 2018

I wanted to conduct a Human test; hooking myself up to one of the Midi boards. This Saturday during the University of Toronto's Science Rendezvous (Nanotopia: Sidney Smith Hall, Rm 1070) We will invite visitors to interact and collaborate musically with the Mycelium, Slime mould, and flora. Thanks so much for tuning in!

For this session I sent the Midi into a MeeBlip Anode and Triode. The Mycelium recorded here has been growing since February. Now it appears Physarum polycephalum is starting to grow on the Mycelium… I think one of the electrodes from my last session must have had slime on it. Oops! Hopefully they aren’t in a battle here, but the sounds tonight are a bit different. Tonight I hooked up two different sets of electrodes to the Mycelium, running through two different circuit boards, that translate the Mycelium impulses to Midi. A friend was visiting and during recording this friend fell asleep on the studio floor. So, I hooked up one set of electrodes to my friend! Haha. They snored away, without even noticing. At this point the Mycelium send out different impulses! More harmonic, if you will. Were the Mycelium aware of my friend? Who knows!?

Next week’s episode will be live recorded during the University of Toronto’s, Science Rendezvous! If you happen to be in Toronto make sure to visit 100 Saint George Street, Nanotopia and the Mycelium Network will be in Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1070.

Thanks for tuning in!

Tonight's episode we dug deep, literally. The electrodes were buried in the spring soil amongst worms, mycelium, bulbs and whatever else happened along. Windchime, fairy tale to deep squelchy vibrations. Headphones are best for this in order to hear all of the nuances. Thank you for listening to Midnight Mushroom Music!

Cultivating Physarum polycephalum aka the 'many-headed' slime towards musical/sound expression. Uncertain what, if any pulses the Slime would send out once the electrodes were attached. For this episode we sent the electrical impulses straight into a øCoast (Make Noise) routed (patched) through several Moog Mother32's recording live into Abelton. That is our only influence here. Curiously the Slime seemed to have a very consistent tone center. After a bit we introduced Slime to Mycelium (which keeps growing btw) and this sort of pentatonic scale happened. Dialogue between the Mycelium & Slime. Heads-up, this episode is bright- if you are wearing headphones be mindful. Not so lullaby.

Soft pulse until around 3:49 then Mycelium lit up the board. We believe this occurred due to one of our cats coming into the room. Back to drones...

Midnight Mushroom Music. Tune in Saturday nights & float into the Mycelium network. Non-human lullabies. Non-human music collaborations.

Mycelium midi bio sonification.

First experiments placing electrodes onto mycelium, which send impulses that are converted to Midi. This Midi data is then plugged into AniMoog. Mycelium Music.