STINK HORN: A Mycological Musical Performance-Lecture by Siôn Parkinson
Thursday, May 8, 2025
Edith C. Blum Institute
4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Presented by Bard Conservatory, in Partnership with the John Cage Trust
Join musician, artist, performer, and author Siôn Parkinson for an intimate performance-lecture– part talk, part live musical experiment– exploring the strange, multi-sensory world of the stinkhorn fungus. Drawing from his book Stinkhorn: How Nature’s Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen, Siôn will lead an afternoon of music and mycology. Like composer John Cage, his twin passions for music and mushrooms have shaped a radical approach to sound. Yet while Cage sought silence in his fungal forays, Siôn finds Stink, an element that links sound and smell, the real and the hallucinated, opening up new ways of listening and composing. Siôn’s performance will be accompanied by a recording of John Cage’s "Child of Tree" (1975), a work for amplified plant materials, performed by D’Arcy Philip Gray and presented courtesy of Mode Records.
The performance is open to the public with free access. A reception featuring “John Cage Cookies” will follow at the John Cage Trust (Wilson House).
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://https://www.sionparkinson.com/.
Time: 4:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Edith C. Blum Institute
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