Mushrooms aren’t always used for their hallucinogenic effects. They are used to create music and art, too. Artist and composer Tarun Nayar, who creates and performs music under the moniker Modern Biology, plugged mushrooms into a synthesizer and wrote music with the electrical waves the fungi produce.
To be held at an indoor concert in Leipzig, a COVID-19 spread-prevention experiment will take place next month and will involve thousands of people.
Called Restart-19, the project is scheduled for August and will cost just under €1million. The objective of the project, according to the organizers, is to helping “identifying a framework” for how larger events could be held “without posing a danger for the population” later in the year.
