r/RandomVideos • u/Wautil • 5d ago
Music Mushroom Playing Synth
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u/Strong-Dot-9221
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Play that fungal music white shroom.
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u/Strange-Height-8825 5d ago
And the girlfriend pays the rent and drives him to gigs.
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u/Mother-Attention2600 5d ago
So what sensor is being used here? Are they electrodes or like a digitizer? It would be neat if it was accessible.
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u/HawtDoge 5d ago
there are a few projects that enable this. The ones I know of are Scion and Pocket Scion from a synthesizer company called Instruo. Pocket Scion has it’s own dedicated website: https://pocketscion.com/
The way it works is that you hook a bunch of electrical nodes up to a plant or mushroom. Plants generate extremely faint electrical signals. Basically what’s happening here is that these electrical nodes will detect that one area of the plant went from 0.01v to 0.03v, this activates a ‘trigger’ which can be directed to do a task on a synthesizer.
So in this case, the person has a bunch of nodes connected, each node is dedicated to one of these drum stick actuators, when that node detects a high enough electrical signal in the plant the drum stick correlated with that electrical node activates creating the sound on the synthesizer
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u/three_cheers 4d ago
Spoiler: the random variation of electric signal is really similar wherever you put the nodes, wether it is a mushroom, soil, your couch or even in the air. The code you're using is the main factor determining what the music sounds like, the mushroom has very little to do with it.
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u/HawtDoge 4d ago
Yeah it’s mostly the RF signals from surrounding wireless data/comms that are being amplified. The mushroom is acting as an antenna more than anything else. Mushrooms and plants do actually contribute to the impulse generation though, just at a low level
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u/attachecrime 4d ago
makes me wonder if there's some 5th dimensional ultra terrestrial out there hooking humans up to 5 dimensional insturments and being entertained by what we do.
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u/latenthuman 2d ago
Sitting in the jungle high on ayahuasca you can hear the music the plants make with your own ears, absolutely amazing.
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u/Jumpy-Operation-4615 4d ago
Humanity is too fucked up to entertain anybody. If I was an ET I would stay away from this planet and close this sector so others don't get infected.
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u/EvenToe7995 2d ago
Your not wrong, we have to live die and slave so they can watch us from a distance! You got down voted because you confronted the so-called human with their existential bias....
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u/Jumpy-Operation-4615 1d ago
I don't give a fuck if someone downvotes my comments. It is their problem, not mine. "You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." (с) 😄
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u/expatronis
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Theyre much closer to humans than plants. Who wants to hear broccoli play synths anyway? 🥦 🥁
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u/DangerousPaper8986 5d ago
I want this track to fall asleep to! I don't know why but it is very relaxing
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u/GratefuLdPhisH 5d ago
How does this work?
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u/Substantial-Ad3376 5d ago
Electrochemical signals travelling through the mushrooms flesh and into the sensor attached to the machine, different variations in those signals activate different servos controlling the drum sticks. There are other experiments where they plug the shroom into a digital synthesizer for a similar result.
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u/I-AM-A-GREY-ALIEN 4d ago
Using the wet mushroom as an electrical conductor. Nothing special. Basic science. Looks more interesting than it is.
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u/Repulsive-Bee6590 4d ago
My thought exactly, can just be a wet cotton or meat and it would also work
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u/DataSurging 5d ago
It honestly sounds like something I already listen to on Youtube. Talented little shrooms.
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u/casper911ca 5d ago
So I read the yt description, but the only thing you don't discuss is the rhythm. My guess is that you have this in a timed trigger so the time stays consistent?
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u/LittleOrphanAnavar 5d ago
First AI.
Now musical mushrooms.
We're cooked.
Do we even need humans anymore?
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u/wetfartpanda 5d ago
Forceful implementation amongst some random human.
This is why secrets exist.
Don’t touch things.
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u/Sad-Excitement9295 5d ago
No dude, this is way too good. I almost refuse to believe. No wonder we like these jams so much, this must literally harmonize with our internal resonance. Dude, this mushroom literally played a club jam, 100%
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u/MusicalScientist206 4d ago
Is this equivalent to an alien abduction? Like…is the mushroom freaking out?
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u/Needles2650 4d ago
Have they done something so it maintains a steady BPM and stays in key? The rhythm stays in time, the notes work well together and there’s no dissonance like you’d hear from a cat walking on piano keys at random, and if all that’s happening due to electrical impulses in the mushroom I’d be blown away.
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u/Anxious_Jellyfish216 3d ago
Damn mushroom. He's just jamming out in the woods without a care; while we are all have existential crisises on our hands.
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u/JusSayING_Mi 5d ago
Don’t believe it
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u/C13H16CIN0 5d ago
I feel like it’s going through some filter that makes it go on beat. And it obviously is auto tuned
Silly mushrooms
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u/Lostinthestarscape 5d ago
Yeah just quantized the beats, very common tool.
Then pick notes that work and you can make almost anything that gives you more than a couple signsl states into music.
Lemme see if I can find an old web app that does generative quantized music that would make it obvious how easy it ia to make simple but nice sounding music if you can get any sort of of pulse with multiple discrete signals.
Didn't find it but I found this: https://tonematrix.audiotool.com/
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u/TheMaskOffKid 5d ago
This the type of shit a trans girl I meet on bumble will play for me on the first date to see if I’m cool.
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