Posts Tagged ‘music’
Texas-based band Fungi Girls released their first album called Seafaring Pyramid. I kind of like the track Dreaming of Oz. Reminds me of weird nights at a club called The Beach in Austin Texas in, oh, I don’t know about 1985 or so? The song is available on the page Bonus MP3: Fungi Girls — [...]
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They Call Him Mushroom You knew there had to be a carny named Mushroom. Something to do with the hair cut. Infected Mushroom — Its a Band I do like to mention musical groups with fungusy names. I even like to interview them. So far, Infected Mushroom has managed to ignore my interview requests. But [...]
The NPR program Fresh Air replayed an interview with the late composer John Cage, who was professional and personal partner of Merce Cunningham, who died July 27th, 2009. Something was mentioned by interviewer Terry Gross indicated Cage was fond of collecting wild mushrooms. Sure enough—he was. I’d like to show some photos of Cage with [...]
The July 29th Pulse of the Planet featured the cellular sound of dead yeast cells. A transcript and audio file of the segment “Cell Sounds: Death” are available. From the transcript: “Jim Gimzewski recently discovered that the motion within yeast cells produces a sound you can listen to, if its highly amplified. Now, after performing [...]
Remember the badger, mushroom, snake video? No? Hmnn. Some middle school kids I was teaching introduced it to me several years ago. I had to admit it was fairly entertaining. Might even be worth another viewing (every few years). According to a comment at YouTube “The actual lyrics are ‘magic magic magic mushroom’. Someone just [...]
There is this band from Texas, see. They are Fungi Girls (no girls included). They do like mushrooms though. Bassist Skyler Salinas recently took a moment to answer a few questions about the band. MycoRant: Tell us a bit about the band. Skyler: We’re a band of kids from suburban and rural Texas that make [...]
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