hobby #130
Bioacoustic Spore Discharge Recording
Capturing the ultrasonic snap of basidiomycete spore release using contact microphones on fungal fruiting bodies. Each species produces a characteristic acoustic signature at 8-100 kHz as millions of spores launch simultaneously — too fast and quiet for human ears, but recordable with piezoelectric sensors and revealed through time-stretching in a DAW. The recordings become both species identification tools and generative sound sources.
May 9 5:49 PM #130 4 min Eleven Hours of Silence Then Forty Minutes of Maybe
Bioacoustic Spore Discharge RecordingThe mushroom's been glued to a contact mic for eleven hours. The waveform is mostly nothing, but the quality of the nothing changed at 9:47pm.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- Ring Buffers for Continuous Event Detection Ring Buffers