Worlding: Sympoietic Mycology, by Eryk Salvaggio

Worlding: Sympoietic Mycology

by Eryk Salvaggio

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mr sterile This is such an exciting listen - I love the concept of sympoietic mycological musical collaboration. I love the work of Haraway and find this music such an important addition to "living with the trouble" as Haraway would say.

A beautiful listening experience

thank you so much for this!

Favorite track: Proximity to a Human Hand.

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Pro-dubbed orange cassette in classic clear case. Lavish four-panel booklet includes pictures & liner notes by Eryk Salvaggio. Limited to 75 copies!

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1.	Fruiting 03:45	buy track
2.	Phototropic Response 04:54	buy track
3.	Pinning 03:46	buy track
4.	Misting 1 04:05	buy track
5.	Misting 2 04:44	buy track
6.	Quiet Thrum 03:33	buy track
7.	Proximity to a Human Hand 08:04	buy track
8.	Zero Red One One One One One 07:07	buy track
9.	Evidence of Growth 02:55	buy track

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Mushrooms are a fascinating organism. Recent research goes so far as to contend that mushrooms have their own “language,” built from voltage spikes sent through the underground rhizomatic network that connects them. According to researcher Andrew Adamatzky, this language comprises at least 50 “words” or repeatable patterns. By directly applying the voltage of mushroom communication to synthesizers, the mushrooms "communicate" through electricity and sound - creating a series of dynamic yet oddly soothing pieces of music. Salvaggio strives to make us hear the inner language of fungi as it interacts with the world. “This project created an electrical ecosystem. 'Sound' is just what happened afterward”, he says.

Salvaggio borrows his project's title from feminist scholar Donna Haraway's term “worlding”, which emphasizes the ongoing relationships between occupants of a co-created world, rather than focusing on its individual pieces. Salvaggio refers to Worlding as a collaboration between human, synthesizer, and mushroom. The album's subtitle refers to another of Haraway’s terms, “Sympoiesis”, which means “making-with”. A mushroom weaves its way into the circuitry of a synthesizer, engaging in a balance of cooperation and competition to produce music.

Worlding's nine tracks represent as many different musical ways to treat the mushroom's unpredictable inputs, built from raw outputs of these mushroom-machine collaborations. Opening track “Fruiting” weaves an insistent melody with surprisingly percussive events. “Pinning” taps the mushroom's electrical impulses to trigger glorious arpeggiators and launches the whole track into space, while the somber “Zero Red One One One One One” triggers a seemingly human voice emitting one-syllable words on a bed of uncertain strings. “Ambient” as it is, Worlding finds many different ways to wander. Though made entirely out of electronic sounds, its tracks aim to convey the sound of the living.

An artist who has released electronic music since the early 2000s, Salvaggio has always been interested in the coming together of art and technology. This mushroom-inspired album stems from an art-science research project supported by The Michigan State University's CoLab Studio, in collaboration with Claudia Westermann, Vinny Montag and researchers at the Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). This larger collaborative project is set to be displayed during the upcoming 1.5° Celsius exhibit at MSU in September 2022.

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released October 21, 2022

Music by Eryk Salvaggio.
Mastered by Stephan Mathieu / Schwebung Mastering.

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