It's Friday. Such a familiar situation, that again I have no pictures of mushrooms. It's not that I had a lot of walks these days and that I could even go mushroom hunting. So I can't complain, it's my fault, that I don't have my contribution for this Friday and this challenge. But, since #FungiFriday is not exclusively intended for photos, but also other forms of content related to mushrooms, we will come up with something. Do you want to join me in this task? It would be appreciated because we will have to be creative to get a post without pictures... Any idea? Maybe some replacement is possible? Music or strange composers? {silencio para pensar en mi cabeza}. I think that's today's path I should take.
Meditative and calm music for the introduction of this post...
So, some time ago I stumbled upon a video of a Czechoslovakian composer Vaclav Halek. He was a huge mushroom lover and dedicated a part of his life to mushrooms. Well, for writing music that mushrooms were whispering to him. Can you believe it? I didnt know mushrooms can make music, although there are some proofs that it can be heard... sort of that... if they go to the right hands and get a music production treatment.
Even John Cage was a mushroom lover and despite od being just an amateur mycologist, he co-founded the New York Mycological Society. He has a so close encounter with mushrooms that it almost led him to death. By a mistake, he ingested poisonous hellebore and he would die, just the fast treatment in the hospital saved his life. Some other composers were also inspired by mushrooms, but this Vaclav had the lead in the subject, I am pretty sure. He claimed that every mushroom has its own melody. 5907 compositions written for mushrooms (well, on the day the following videos was filmed)
Wow, he says other musicians were afraid of him and his musical abilities. I can confirm, he was or:
1. too weird, or
2. a musical genius.
His friends also thought he was crazy, he claimed, when in one walk in Prague he started to hear the music coming from a mushroom. He wanted to write it down immediately, as he was hearing it. That night, when he arrived home, he wrote a whole Symphony. But, I like to hear those short musical pieces, from the tiny mushrooms that were singing to him their tune. This piece, Chalciporus piperatus, is just 28 seconds but brings some hair-raising feelings:
Hygrophorus poetarum is a bit more uplifting and optimistic, absolutely inviting to go outside, somewhere in the woods and try to find some mushrooms for the next week's #FungiFriday post. As, if not I will have just to stay with the posts I have written for this event until now. Are you curious to see them all in one place, aren't you? :D In the case of a positive answer, here they come. The very first encounter with the mushrooms happened in the mountains, in December 2020. My second Fungi Friday post brought a special guest, a Happy Freddy called guy, with some eyes :) . The third contribution came from an orchard but in the next post dedicated to this Friday thingy, we were cooking a bit.
Some pause happened until I found the right mushrooms for the fifth contribution. My FungiFriday post number 6 was brought from different places, a golf course, forest and mountains had to provide the mushrooms for me.July and a different country were a blessing for the seventh post, and until October, we had to wait to find some more hidden, smiling specimens. In November, Witches visited the blockchain, actually The witch' hear, Clathrus rubber. Later, I heard also some singing mushrooms and they were the nicest couple I have ever seen... although it was a bit unbelievable story. The giant crying mushrooms required a tall person to take photos... or climb the fence, and finally, the last finding happened some two weeks ago.
Well, we will see when the next post, after this one can come. Don't know if luck will again allow me to take some fungi photos, until then does this post count as an entry, @ewkaw? :D
We can find out, by reading the guidelines of this challenge. Take note:
-when Friday comes post your own, original photo/drawing/art/food/anything-at-all of any type of fungi
-add #FungiFriday tag (it doesn't have to be your first tag)
-include My contribution to #FungiFriday by @ewkaw anywhere in your post.
All good, I think, she said the word : anything-at-all ... so, here it came... This half strange post. However, if you really want to see something extra eccentric,and if you dare, click to the following title: The Mushroom Opera.
Well, I warned you.
