Not surprisingly, they can also make some interesting music, with a little help from Canadian musician Tarun Nayar, the mastermind who makes nature-inspired electronic music under the name Modern Biology.
Many of Nayar's beautiful music pieces, which he calls "organismic music," are created by recording the bioelectric pulses from living plants and fungi, which are then overlaid with Nayar's original compositions. By using a variety of modular synthesizers and small jump cables gently hooked up to fungi, Nayar is able to coax some of the most fascinating sounds out of these organisms.
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As a musician, Nayar gives mesmerizing live performances both indoors and out, and given the nature of working with living organisms, there have been moments where unexpected things have happened, as he recounts one surprising incident:
"I was at a retreat center called Hollyhock last summer, playing mushroom music right before [renowned mycologist] Paul Stamets spoke. I was tapped into a red belted polypore mushroom, which was being rather quiet. Its bioelectricity hadn't changed in some time. I started talking about how dangerous the idea of non-human consciousness is to our notions of human exceptionalism, and the mushroom just lit up! It went nuts. The whole audience was laughing and cheering as the mushroom joined the conversation. This was actually captured on video and you can find it on the Internet. It was wild."
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