Mycelia

Nanotopia’s Midnight Mushroom Music, in collaboration with the Metaverse Crew, presents Live Reactive Fungi Frequencies and Interpretative Dance Performances featuring R00T and Particle dancers joining us from around the world. Connecting living mycelium* biodata into a VR experience, Nanotopia's biodata-sonification modules translate micro fluctuations in conductivity into MIDI, enabling them to send fungi energy through their synthesizers, creating a multi-species musical entanglement. The connected mycelium reacts sonically and visually within the audio-reactive world, to the virtual and physical human presence in a fungi-feedback loop. Visitors into Mycelia are encouraged to explore, harvest Amanita, and go for a swim while listening to mushroom melodies and experiencing the dance. During AMAZE. /Berlin guests could touch the Myco-synths sending this data to living fungi growing in Nanotopia's Toronto studio. Haptic sensors placed around the living mycelium vibrated which sent back into the VR experience the mycelium's response visually and sonically. Mycelia is a hyphal growth from the Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis project presented by Tosca Terán during the Goethe Institute's New Nature Climate Science Exchange 2020. Mycelia was created to perform and share during A MAZE. / Berlin July 2021, and premiered for as their opening night performance. Mycelia was an invited special event during the Venice Film Festival 2021, was nominated and won the Raindance Spirit of the Festival award 2021.

*mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus or fungus-like bacterial colony.