Using a Pico data-logger artist Theresa Schulbert recorded two days of activity of a slime mould sample. The resulting datas was later process by Leslie Garcia in order to compress this readings in a 6 minute format  to be sonified by a digital synthesizer. This experiment was conducted during The MusicMakers Hacklab at CTM Festival in Berlin.

Slime mould_ Day two

Feral Practice learns to spot signs of otters - that is slides and spraint 💩 - along the Taunton-Bridgwater canal and finds out more about otter life from Jo Pearse of the Somerset Otter Group. 

Question - what does otter poo smell like? The answer may surprise you!  Jo goes into delighful detail about the otter's life and habits, including how anal jelly (😳) helps protect the otters gut from fish bones. 

We learn the different kinds of peril otters are in, and how in death they contribute to river research.

TONAL: Rivers Beyond Sewage - Otters with Jo Pearse of Somerset Otter Group

jam in the garden with guitars and a laptop

Field Music

Physarum movements

Live act at Inoculum Connecting the other. Berlin Feb 4 1026.

Non-Human Rhythms Featuring Physarum (Live)

commissioned by Deutschlandradio Kultur premier 07 April here >
http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/ursendung-radikale-pilzkunde-
mycelium.1022.de.html?dram:article_id=378861

Mycelium - {sound} art as underlying network for advanced {deeper} listening
http://mycelium.poemproducer.com/

They grow in secret and yet form the largest living organisms
in the world: mycelia, the subterranean filament of fungi.
In this, the sound artist Antye Greie-Ripatti {AGF} sees a metaphor
for political activism in the age of the Internet.
Here, too, small cells are interlacing in the subsurface to effect the greater.
For her radio composition "Mycelium" Greie-Ripatti therefore sonifies
the vital functions of the forest plants and contrasts them
with voices of activists from all over the world.
This creates a multi-lingual sound network,
which transports a quiet but sustainable utopia: Together we are strong.

{text Marcus Gammel, Deutschlandradio Kultur}

Encouraged by Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Inspired by Peter McCoy and Radical Mycology
In admiration for the people's political activism.

{sonification in collab w interspecifics and Anja Erdmann }

related #sonicwilderness

FIREMUSHROOM

This time we've got a freebie for you all! We had an afternoon with Peggy Lee and she was kind enough to lend her awesome vocal chords to some 21st century electronicmusichousething. Download and enjoy!

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Peggy Lee - Fever (Stavroz remix) - free download, yeah!

TONAL - Rivers Beyond Sewage explores water issues nationally with a special focus on the River Tone in Somerset. Through riverside conversations with people who have different and profound relationships with water Feral Practice leads us on a deep dive into the politics, law, art and science of rivers with curiosity and humor.


Artist Feral Practice lives in Somerset, UK. They work to explore and expand our relationship to other species and the living earth.

TONAL: Rivers Beyond Sewage - Otters with Jo Pearse of Somerset Otter Group

Feral Practice

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