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Midnight Mushroom Music
by Mycelium Network
Creating immersive sensory experiences🌲music + biomaterials often in collaboration with fungi 🍄🎶Interested in working with us or licensing our music? It is highly appreciated you kindly reach out to us prior to ripping our audio. Our music (mycelium, tree derived or otherwise) posted online here, or through Tidal, Bandcamp, Spotify, etc., is registered with SOCAN.Reach out through, www.nanotopia.netThanks!©Nanotopia 21st century
Episodes
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Midnight Mushroom Music - Suomi residency 2026
Lichen and Phlebia incarnata (I think) close to the residency house. This pink fleshy fungi is growing on many stumps around here.
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Nothing Exists On Its Own
For this recording Andrei and I played with word phasing. Reading each of our sections onto different tracks, we then copied/pasted back to back to back to back. Which gradually phased our original reading. At 1:40 we recorded our tracks adding delay, copied/pasted back to back to back- the delay...
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Be Translated
The following recording was created for the Radio Confidential Show that aired alongside the Hotel Confidential installations that took place April 2026 at the Royal Hotel in Picton Ontario. Radio Confidential became a bit of a collaboration for Nanotopia with Radio hosts Chip Yarwood and Celina...
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Welcome
The following recording was created for the Radio Confidential Show that aired alongside the Hotel Confidential installations that took place April 2026 at the Royal Hotel in Picton Ontario. Radio Confidential became a bit of a collaboration for Nanotopia with Radio hosts Chip Yarwood and Celina...
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Welcome
The following recording was created for the Radio Confidential Show that aired alongside the Hotel Confidential installations that took place April 2026 at the Royal Hotel in Picton Ontario. Radio Confidential became a bit of a collaboration for Nanotopia with Radio hosts Chip Yarwood and Celina...
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Excerpt-Sixth-Great-Extinction
Excerpt-Sixth-Great-Extinction by Mycelium Network
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Veilroot
Billions of years ago, two black holes merged in a distant galaxy, warping space-time and triggering a burst of gravitational waves and exotic particle radiation. What would later be referred to as “The Big Bang”. The collision destabilized a nearby planetary system where a super-resilient life...
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The Steps of Ganoderma
Track from Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis: Sentience Scene One: MOTH THE GUESTS FIND THEY HAVE EMERGED FROM CHRYSALIS WITHIN A DENSE FOREST. STRANGE SOUNDS AND LOW-FREQUENCIES SURROUND THEM. A DENSE FOG FILLS THE AREA. AS THE GUESTS COME TO TERMS WITH THEIR NEW SURROUNDINGS, THEY HEAR SINGING-LIKE SOUNDS…
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Psy-what?! Mangled World Hop
Well, Danny* has been on our minds lately, somewhat due to working this past Venice Film Festival Immersive as a World Hop tour guide and the cacophony and fun chaos around being an Immersive Tour Guide. Our pal, Manglebird, is the programmer in chief for the Venice Immersive World Hops…
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Rainforest
Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis: Sentience Live performance - Nanotopia pays homage to Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and one of their favourite movies, Fantastic Planet. Imagine stepping into an old-growth forest, where your EEG data and the bioelectrical activity of living Mycelium influence the world...
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Groning into 2022
A start into Jamuary22 trying out a 3 patch challenge from Comparative Irrelevance. Maths/STØ/Rings only here we do not use the STØ (bc we do not own one) in its place we used the VCO side of a Maneco Labs Grone Drone.. with a short visit from a Mother 32. Things grow dark fairly quickly, this is...
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Performing Mycelia-preview
Mycelia premiered as the opening performance for A MAZE. / Berlin festival 2021 in VRChat. A meta-immersive living mycelium musical entanglement. Nanotopia is known for hooking up fungi with electrodes and circuitry to record its various biodata and translating this biodata (often in real-time)...
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The UnderSound: mid-Winter
Forest UnderSound is an invitation to consider the sentience of fungi. Sentience is the ability to perceive one’s environment, and experience sensations such as pain and suffering, or pleasure and comfort. Many countries acknowledge animal sentience, and animal’s ability to experience pain, fear,...
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SCOBY
Finally hooked up a Mother. After chatting with Aga (Ferment Radio) I wondered why I hadn't tried this yet. I mean, really. Prior to setting the electrode probes into the SCOBY I did a little test with Apple cider vinegar and another with a bit of water just to see if the activity would be the…
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Unexpected Visitors
Back in August 2020 I started cultivating Pleurotus djamor towards a presentation for the Remote Realities residency awarded to myself and technologist/collaborator Sara Lisa Vogl (regarding Symbiosis/Dysbiosis). After the presentation I gently placed the Pink oyster mushrooms aside. Last week,...
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2. Mothers2
Created during COVID self-isolation. Moon in Cancer was recorded during our August 15th live stream. Check it out over on https://nanotopia.bandcamp.com Thanks for listening!
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3. Apongo
Created during COVID self-isolation. Moon in Cancer was recorded during our August 15th live stream. Check it out over on https://nanotopia.bandcamp.com Thanks for listening!
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4. MooninCancer
Created during COVID self-isolation. Moon in Cancer was recorded during our August 15th live stream. Check it out over on https://nanotopia.bandcamp.com Thanks for listening!
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1. IntoTheVoid
Created during COVID self-isolation. Moon in Cancer was recorded during our August 15th live stream. Check it out over on https://nanotopia.bandcamp.com Thanks for listening!
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The Dye Maker, 2019
The Dye Maker - Composed by: Phaeolus schweinitzii for Music Works magazine - The biodata of Phaeolus schweinitzii (common name: the Dye Maker’s polypore) was recorded during a Fall foray with the Mycological Society of Toronto at Dufferin forest, Mansfield ON 2019. MIDI translation took place in...
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Generative Patching
Generative Patching by Mycelium Network
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Midnight Mushroom Music: Into The New Nature
Solstice Live Stream from June 20th, 2020 5:30 PM EDT Into the New Nature Travelling without moving into the Mycelium Network with Nanotopia. Mycelium bio-sonification through modular synthesis. Electrodes are placed within Ganoderma lucidum aka Reishi. The electrodes detect micro fluctuations in...
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Now Means Nothing
Live stream Midnight Mushroom Music • May 30th, 2020 Ganoderma lucidum biodata recorded in realtime - translated into MIDI & CV into Mutable Instruments Yarns which in turn sent this data into various Synth voices: Plaits, Braids, Clouds, Mother32, Erica synths Black Wave Table and more......
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Mycelium during COVID-19
Meant to be a live stream to Instagram (@nanopodstudio) there was a technical melt-down of sorts (phone related) so, we had to cancel. Meanwhile, we were recording (thank the fungi!) and here it is. Pleurotus ostreatus that has grown into/around sawdust w/coffee grounds had electrodes placed on…
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Hidden Fungi Layer
Ahoy! Some listeners of 28/03/20's live stream asked what the fungi were contributing so, we isolated the layer to share here!
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thoughtful scrunch
Growing mycorrhizal threads pushed through MicroFreak & Particle into Live and out the donut hole. Headphones always.
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Particle counter
Monster Zero is in the works! I believe I've mentioned looking into Phoneme databases, to use with the fungi biodata? Well, here we have some mycorrhizal fungi triggering numbers. As if it is counting out otherworldly lottery numbers, or perhaps numerical sequence end dates? ;p Actually, it is...
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Fungal AI
Remember how everyone seemingly got all up on Grimes for saying AI will replace musicians? Well, actually that may not have been her exact wording or sentiment, however, if the Age of Spiritual Machines is soon then Grimes may not be too far from the truth (IMHO). AI has definitely played into my...
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Pleurr
Pleurr by Mycelium Network
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Crassula-portulacea
Lately, we've been researching electrodes. Nano, micro, tiny, made of fine silver and gold. For this biodata recording, we used needle-fine silver electrodes. The electrodes, like hypodermic needles, were placed within the roots of our Crassula portulacea (Shrek plant!). As well as experimenting...
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C.militaris
A colleague is experimenting with Cordyceps, growing them on rice... Several jars of fruiting bodies so I thought why not record some biodata! Here it is.. curious.
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Deanei and Cypellocarpa
This was my last day in the Blue Mountains and I had to record biodata from a Mountain Blue Gum, Eucalyptus deanei as well as a Grey Gum, Eucalyptus cypellocarpa. Not too far from BigCi the soil changes to where these particular beauties thrive. What's more, is there is what looks to be a field…
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Arachnocampa-luminosa
Tuesday evening, Oct 8th I was generously invited to visit (& record biodata if possible) the Glowworms residing in a section of Rainforest looked after by Lionel Buckett, founder/builder of http://lovecabins.com.au/ (check out his amazing cabins & Tree House!!). So, Glowworms can now be marked…
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Cyclo-haemastoma
Raw Midi biodata recorded from the Eucalyptus haemastoma. I brought it into Ableton for some lite-processing. Added a 'voice' to hear the data. The notes formed what looked like cuneiform. Letters. Maybe, symbols? Do you hear a pattern? Eucalyptus haemastoma, commonly known as scribbly gum, is a...
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Laetiporus portentosus
Its been raining up in the Blue Mountains- which is a good thing! Out early morning Wednesday, Sept 18th and I found giant Cauliflower-like, slightly Lion's Mane-ish fungi under gum trees. Turns out these giant fungus clumps are Laetiporus portentosus. Here's what Wiki has to say: Laetiporus...
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Wollemi Pine
Bio-data recording from a Wollemi clone. Wollemia is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. Wollemia was only known through fossil records until the Australian species Wollemia nobilis was discovered in 1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park…
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Sunset - Scribbly
Out collecting biodata I wandered into Wollemi's Gardens of Stone. The Scribbly Gum is a magnificent tree. Its bark is an iridescent blue, graphic as if someone painted it camouflage patterns in multiple shades of graphite. The particular Scribbly that called to me grew out of what appeared to be…
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Banksia serrata
Early morning biodata recordings of Banksia serrata aka Old Man Banksia/Saw-tooth Banksia Artist residency 16, August 2019 to 16, October 2019. Blue Mountains World Heritage site Wollemi National Park. 2019 Bigci Environmental Award. @MothAntler
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Rongoa-Kauri
This morning I headed out around 4:30/5am to explore the Zig Zag path in South Titirangi. The hike down was easy... I was in search of Kauri. WikiP says: Agathis australis, commonly known by its Māori name kauri, is a coniferous tree of Araucariaceae in the genus Agathis, found north of 38°S in…
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Sunrise-scarlets
Sunrise at Bigci recording the Scarlets.
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Steyaertanum
Last night it rained (finally!) leaving the earth wet this morning so, I took an early walk down to the Scarlet fungi to record their bio-data. Curious birds chirped, trilled and squawked at me while I placed the electrodes onto the mushrooms. That said, this recording is from Ganoderma...
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Angophora Costata
Coming to you from the Blue Mountains in NSW Australia! I am excited to have made it at long last. A recipient of the BigCi Environmental award I am residing at the edge of Wollemi National Park. The trees here are spectacular! This morning I went on a short walk to a beautiful red gum to test…
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Ground
Today Andrei and I were interviewed by Ground magazine quarterly (Ontario Association of Architecture) During the interview mycelium was softly playing in the background. Later in we hooked up the writer and then ourselves to each other. Look for our interview in the Fall issue of Ground…
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A mushroom and two naughts
It feels like forever! After the Mycelium Martian Dome, prototype 1,0 went up we needed some serious downtime to recoup. We left a panel growing at the Dressler's for over two weeks now so, we thought we better check-in! Out of its growing chamber, it was slowly drying. It felt only a day or two...
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Mushroom Brain
Saturday afternoon, June 29th 2019 and the Mycelium Brain over in the MOCA studio is still alive and growing! It is incredibly active. I hooked the module up to an Eowave Domino (droneOrama!) and eventually brought that MIDI data through a Volca fm with the always amazing Strymon Blue Sky…
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OzymanMyces
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' A central theme of the "Ozymandias" poems (excerpt here by Shelley) is the inevitable decline of rulers with their pretensions to greatness. Physarum polycephalum does not see Humans as ruler, nor their pretensions.
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Ephemeratu
Apologies for a couple missed evenings. Andrei and I have been contemplating our losses. Andrei's father last year, my mother this year along with everything else. Positive thoughts, too. Many projects and changing the code on our bio-sonification modules- which you hear here. Andrei and I hooked...
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Loss 1
Electrodes placed on my scalp, MIDI out to Mother 32 running into various Eurorack modules; Karl Marx, Braids, Clouds, Black Hole and some Make Noise.. It has been a difficult week. Wondered what that might sound like.
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BlippetyBloopBarbaScoop
Listening to the Mycelium sculpture that was grown for GrowOp 2019 every other day, it changes. This episode is a bit Bjork + Matmos = some high pitched pings so, watch out if you're wearing headphones! Oh and May the 4th be with you! :) Scanning electron mage taken from Lichen growing on a birch...
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Mycelial Tardis
Today has been a hell of a day! Positive/Negative/in-between. Regardless, tonight the Ganoderma lucidum is very active. Brought the midi biodata through the Grandmother and then decided to simply bring it through Ableton. Thanks for listening! <3
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Creating immersive sensory experiences🌲music + biomaterials often in collaboration with fungi 🍄🎶Interested in working with us or licensing our music? It is highly appreciated you kindly reach out to us prior to ripping our audio. Our music (mycelium, tree derived or otherwise) posted online here, or through Tidal, Bandcamp, Spotify, etc., is registered with SOCAN.Reach out through, www.nanotopia.netThanks!©Nanotopia 21st century
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