Timelapse video of oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus) sprouting from Merlin Sheldrake's book: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, & Shape Our Futures, with accompanying song by Cosmo Sheldrake.

All sounds apart from voice and double bass are recordings of the fungus devouring the book. Recordings of the fungus were made by sound ecologist Michael Prime using electrodes which detect the bioelectric activity of the fungus and control a tunable oscillator. The fluctuations in pitch and rhythm are real-time sonic representations of the activity of the fungus as it digests the book.

With many thanks to GroCycle who inoculated and inoculated the books, and DRK Videography for producing the video. Track mixed and mastered by Vahakn Matossian.

Find out more about Entangled Life at www.merlinsheldrake.com.