Binaural mix of one of the sound installation's broadcasts [best listened to with headphones]:



MYCELIUM GARDEN project - winner of EUR ArTec's Symbiosis call for projects

We are building a device for developing sensitive interactions with the mycelium, an organism that facilitates symbiosis, by interpreting the specificity of its electrical expressions. This project aims to take into account the singularity of a mycelium network in a mode of interaction with humans based on listening and attention. This model will attempt to retain the dimension of otherness in sensory interaction.

We will combine our skills to develop an AI model that will enable us to map mycelium behavior and co-compose sounds thanks to the electrical variations recorded and classified. These data will be linked with graphical, textual and sound data to generate mycelium communication modes. This experimental process will enable us to enter into a relationship with a non-human organism, observe its behavior and adjust our behavior in interaction with it. In this way, we will question the notions of intelligence and adaptation in a three-agent composition process, human/AI/Mycelium. How intelligent is the mycelium compared with the human musician and artificial intelligence: what do we mean by this? This installation deals with the importance of recognizing the otherness of non-human and non-animal beings in the ecological project of caring for living things.

PROJECT LEADER(S)
Diane Schuh (CICM - Musidanse - EA1572/EDESTA/Paris8)

PROJECT TEAM
Anne Sèdes, Alain Bonardi and David Fierro (CICM - MUSIDANSE/Paris8) Guillaume Peureux and Julien Schuh (CSLF/Université Paris Nanterre)
Charlotte Janis and Roberto dell'Orco (SPORA)
Stephen Whitmarsh (ICM) Hugo Scurto (ArTec post-doc)
Salim Mohamed Aissi (LIP6 - Computer Science Laboratory - CNRS - Sorbonne University)

IN COLLABORATION WITH
MSH Paris Nord, EA 1572 Esthétique, musicologie, danse et création musicale (musidanse), Université Paris Nanterre

Mycelium Garden - One iteration of the sound installation - phase 1

diane schuh /// composer, researcher & landscape architect

Mycelium Garden - One iteration of the sound installation - phase 1

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