T hey say the forest is silent. But silence, my friend, is only what we hear when we’re deaf to deeper things. In the damp woods of Tintwistle near Manchester, a small group known as Bionic and the Wires did something extraordinary. They attached electrodes to a mushroom—yes, a mushroom—and measured its bio-electrical fluctuations. The tiny voltage variations inside this humble organism were then converted into musical notes. And before long, robotic arms were playing a keyb

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