Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate.

A scientific research paper this month documented evidence that sound can help fungus grow. The conclusion: “Demonstrating a tangible impact on fungal activity, our findings suggest that carefully tuned acoustic parameters might be able to enhance ecological processes.”

Record music to help a forest grow. Imagine an array of solar-powered speakers is spread through a forest-in-need. Or come up with another deployment scenario of your own imagining. What sort of music would you play for the forest to encourage its regeneration?

The research paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0295.

Coverage in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/04/science/fungus-sounds-growth.html

The paper is the work of four people from the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in Australia.

Thanks to Michael Rhode for having shared with me the research coverage.

Deadline: Monday, October 28, 2024, 11:59pm (that is: just before midnight) wherever you are.

Details: disquiet.com/0669

Disquiet Junto Project 0669: Phonosynthesis

https://open.spotify.com/track/2bGP2GcyPFp880zd0xNHBI?si=446b4cfc107e44a2

Zion

Frasi Ossidiana

Inspired by Naviar Haiku 562:
https://www.naviarrecords.com/naviarhaiku562-through-a-world-of-sound/

Thanks to Marco Alessi from Naviar Records for the weekly challenge!

Photo by zenbytes (Bighorn Canyon, Wyoming, USA, 2023)

Samples by 
https://freetousesounds.bandcamp.com
https://99sounds.org/glitch-textures/

discerning ear - Naviarhaiku 562

E- NO.  14 - 10:15:24, 3.53 AM

More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

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I’ve always had plants in my studio, and someone once told me that even if sunlight is limited, the constant presence of music playing every day helps keep the plants healthy.

I don’t know about that, , but they look great and seem to grow steadily.

“Record music to help a forest grow.”

I believe that simply having musicians play acoustic instruments in the forest would only bring good to it.

Here I just played “woody”, natural percussion instruments, bamboo drums, wood sticks and blocks, conch shells, cuica, marimba, bombo legüero, talking drum and some other toys. I recorded 3 versions, this is the “fast” one.

Rain Forrest (Fast) - disquiet0669

Phonosynthesis

Disquiet Junto | Phonosynthesis - disquiet0669

According to my research of various websites, the consensus seems to be that calmer types of music are more conducive to plant growth. This track was created using Pure Data & various plugins, etc.
More on the 669th weekly Disquiet Junto project, Phonosynthesis — The Assignment: Make music to help a forest regenerate — at https://disquiet.com/0669/

Dendrosymphonic (disquiet0669)

Regeneration(disquiet0669)


This week's Disquiet Junto, titled "Phonosynthesis", asked us to record music to help a forest grow. The prompt was inspired by a study that demonstrated the influence of music on fungal growth, like that of the mycelium that connect the roots of plants and trees.

I thought of a deep green primordial forest, and imagined the fractal entanglement of the thread-like mycelium lighting up like neurons as information, nutrients, water, and even electricity flow from tree to tree and plant to plant through this fungal internet. All communication requires a protocol; the entirety of the internet depends on one called TCP/IP. So what would the protocol for the mycelium communication network be like? And what would it sound like?

More about this week's Disquiet Junto: https://disquiet.com/0669


The Mycelium Protocol (disquiet0669)

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(LYRICS)
Les Tendances

Laisse-moi et ne touche pas les vestiges de mon cœur 
En secret je resterai 
La petite fille, elle pleure 

Les tendances qui se prononcent  
Les façons dont je tombe
Les tendances qui se prononcent 
Les façons dont j’ai peur 

Laisse-moi et ne touche pas les vestiges de mon cœur
En secret tu attendais 
Un autre fil, une fleur 

Les tendances qui se prononcent 
Les façons dont je tombe 
Les tendances qui se prononcent 
Les façons dont j’ai peur

J’ai couché tous les jours
J’ai couché tous les jours
J’ai couché tous les jours
C’est à cause de moi
Laisse-moi
Laisse-moi

(TRANSLATION)
Leave me and don't touch the remains of my heart 
In secret I will stay 
The little girl, she's crying 

The emerging trends  
The ways I fall
The emerging trends 
The ways I'm afraid 

Leave me and don't touch the remains of my heart
In secret you were waiting 
Another thread, a flower 

The emerging trends 
The ways I fall 
The emerging trends 
The ways I'm afraid

I slept every day
I slept every day
I slept every day
It's because of me
Leave me
Leave me

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Les Tendances (Dub Remix)

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I create original experimental, postpunk, and experiential music from my studio in Chicago. The Hard Times described my work as "creepy, haunted, but also a little bit uplifting." Prolific.

My 33 1/3 series book about the Aphex Twin album <i>Selected Ambient Works Volume II</i> was published in 2014. The book was one of the top 5 bestselling titles for the calendar year, and in 2015 was ranked by Pitchfork as one of the "33 best" of the 100-plus books in the 33 1/3 series. It has subsequently been translated into Japanese (2019) and Spanish (2018)

Since 2012 I have moderated the Disquiet Junto group, which began on SoundCloud. More at disquiet.com/junto. 

I've written for Nature, Pitchfork, The Wire, Down Beat, Boing Boing, NewMusicBox, Red Bull Music Academy, Art Practical, the website of The Atlantic, and many other publications. 

I've exhibited sound art at galleries in Los Angeles (Crewest), Manhattan (apex art), and Dubai (DUTAC), and I had a audio-visual installation at the San Jose Museum of Art as part of its 45th anniversary.

And since 1996 I've run the website Disquiet.com about the intersection of sound, art, and technology.

The Mycelium Protocol (disquiet0669)

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