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blissblogger

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Apparently bass clarinets and mushrooms are also involved (don't know if that means mushrooms in the John Cage mycologist sense or mushrooms in the shrooms / Terence McKenna sense)

Described as "biological techno" in another article
 
pattycakes_

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Maybe she's doing the shroom to control voltage thing

You can hook them up to modular synths and channel the tiny electrical charges they emit to send signals to control synth parameters

Rather than try and explain any further you could just search yt for shroom modular or sthn like that
 
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pattycakes_ said:
Maybe she's doing the shroom to control voltage thing

You can hook them up to modular synths and channel the tiny electrical charges they emit to send signals to control synth parameters

Rather than try and explain any further you could just search yt for shroom modular or sthn like that
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oh yeah i think i've read about ambient artists doing that with trees and plants
 
shiels

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blissblogger said:
oh yeah i think i've read about ambient artists doing that with trees and plants
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Just saw Paul Stamets posting about this today and heard my mate mention it enthusiastically, but is it anything more than the strength of an electric signal matched onto pitch or any other modulation? ie who gives a fuck?
 
shiels

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I admire the ambition in a way. There are some sounds in nature that electronic music, sampling etc is way out from grasping the beauty of. Like the increasingly frequent glug glug and rising pitch of water passing through a hole, flocking birds flying over and away, stuff with these beautiful natural curved acoustics and space warping. These mushroom modulests think the mushrooms are really smart and wil end up doing interesting space warp patterns to make us dance because they love us and want to teach us things
 
wektor

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shiels said:
Just saw Paul Stamets posting about this today and heard my mate mention it enthusiastically, but is it anything more than the strength of an electric signal matched onto pitch or any other modulation? ie who gives a fuck?
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No, it would probably only make sense for something durational, since I doubt the voltage changes that occur within a short time frame are meaningful, might as well just be noise.
That's the whole issue with "sonification" of data generally, like that NASA black hole shit. I can really just map anything, like the number of posts created on a day on this forum to an LFO of a modern talking synth patch and post it as an online article titled This is how UK's most important music forum sounds like.
This would possibly upset some people, but that's the thing - sonification is very delicate and at the same time can be done very arbitrarily, which in most cases makes the this is how XYZ sounds like utter fucking nonse.
That's not how it sounds like. You added a fucking modulated arpeggiator to a single held MIDI note which is the only thing generated from the data you had.
Cunt.
 
shiels

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I saw something similar from NASA where they said you could hear a black hole. But they’d just taken certain calculations of alterations in the speed of spinning gas molecules near a black hole, that would create vibrations way outside our hearing range …. and transposed them into something audible to us

 
shiels

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wektor said:
No, it would probably only make sense for something durational, since I doubt the voltage changes that occur within a short time frame are meaningful, might as well just be noise.
That's the whole issue with "sonification" of data generally, like that NASA black hole shit. I can really just map anything, like the number of posts created on a day on this forum to an LFO of a modern talking synth patch and post it as an online article titled This is how UK's most important music forum sounds like.
This would possibly upset some people, but that's the thing - sonification is very delicate and at the same time can be done very arbitrarily, which in most cases makes the this is how XYZ sounds like utter fucking nonse.
That's not how it sounds like. You added a fucking modulated arpeggiator to a single held MIDI note which is the only thing generated from the data you had.
Cunt.
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You got here before me, glad we’re on the the same page. Let’s sonificy the words on the page
 
droid

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There is a long tradition of plant music, operating in two modes; music made for plants, based on the idea that plants can hear, kickstarted by the research of Dorothy Retallack and Mort Garson’s Plantasia and basically now a sub genre of ambient music, and music made by plants - David Rosenbooms mid 70s brainwave music was a big part of this and the accessibility of tools to detect the galvanic responses in plants has led to a boom in the field, there's now even an app that does it.

I was telling a mate of mine about plant music a few years back and played him some stuff, he has no real interest in music, but he did ask a good question: 'What does meat music sound like?'
 
droid

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I guess there's also music made using plants as acoustic instruments... but lets not think too much about that.
 
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