Clover Swan Song
from Midnight Mushroom Music Hosted by Mycelium Network
Back in Iceland harvesting wild yeast(s) towards a process known as Obvara*. Some of the plants, lichen, mushrooms I find towards capturing yeast is also (of course!) hooked up with electrodes and their bio-data is translated to midi. This evening I was working with wild clover. This clover is dying as winter storms have been raging off and on over here, but this particular flower had a lot of life left in it! Thanks for tuning in to Midnight Mushroom Music! xo *The obvara firing process, which originated in Eastern Europe around the 12th Century, involves scalding the finish on the pottery to seal the porous surface. Similar to the raku pottery process, a bisqued pot is heated, in this case to 1650°F (899°C) and removed from the heat. The difference is that the pot is then dipped into a specific Obvara yeast mixture before being dunked in water to rapidly cool the piece. The effects are quite stunning. Often results yield dendritic/lichen-like patterns!
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