This interactive sound experience seeks to uncover the existence of a shared language between human and fungi; giving a voice and making visible the mycelium network from which it fruits. By utilising interactive biodata sonification, which requires this inter-being collaboration, the piece hopes to connect human to more-than-human.
Part of MA Show 2023, School of Digital Arts (SODA) Manchester Metropolitan University. More info on the MA Shows Website
CCTV of human touching fungi 
Analogue and digital screens 
Fungi specimens in the spotlight 
Pink oyster mushroom driving the visualisation 
Analogue TV on mushroom log
The research aims to contribute to the area of Eco Sound Design; to produce an exhibit that aims to connect humans to nature in order to engender care for the earth in these times of planetary crisis. I was drawn to biodata sonification as it directly implicates the organism that is featured, and, by sonifying aspects of their biology, gives them a voice in relation to their own ecosystem, and potentially in relationship to the human.