A song of joy, spring cleaning, running in circles, and life returning
Another way of saying ‘slime mold wave fronts oscillate at different frequencies’ is that every slime mold is a choir. The differences in frequency between their parts steer slime molds towards or away from things in their environment. Rather than singing about something, they are singing their lives. Slime molds are very lyrical and do not make a distinction between art and life.
Whenever we are out in nature, we are surrounded by singing slime molds. As they are singing very softly and slowly, they are hard for us to hear. To make it possible to enjoy their voices, slime mold Andi and I are adapting the singing of slime molds for human hearing. We hope you like Andi’s song of spring!
This post has more information about the nuts and bolts of these sonifications.
