Can Mushrooms Really Make Music?
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A new exhibition about fungi opens on 3 October at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery in Exeter, England. The show is called Living Labyrinths, and it includes an artwork created by musician Jason Singh. Singh used special sensors to record electrical signals from living mushrooms and their underground parts, called mycelium. He then changed these signals into sounds that people can hear, making music from mushrooms for visitors to experience.
Fungi produce tiny electrical signals because they are living things. Singh used technology to turn the changes in these signals into musical notes. In the exhibition, people can listen to the sounds created by the fungi, making the usually hidden activity of mushrooms easy to notice.
Because of this exhibition, visitors can learn about the important roles of fungi in nature. They can also enjoy art made from and inspired by mushrooms, and they will have a new way to discover the secret life of these unusual organisms.
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6 wordsa public display of objects or art
complex mazes with many winding path sections
devices that detect and measure physical changes
electrical messages sent between living organic structures
the thin underground threads of a fungus
any individual living thing found in nature
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