A research into

the sonic world of mycelium

Close-up of the textured edges of fungi gills.
Person holding a wet mushroom with a black spot in the center, wearing a green raincoat.

Immersive Connections

Diwa Spora is a research into the sonic world of mycelium, translating fungal networks and subterranean rhythms into immersive soundscapes. At its heart is an album inspired by the hidden networks beneath the forest floor and the ways they connect, communicate, and exchange energy. The project draws parallels between these living networks and the connective nature of music: an invisible field weaving together people, places, generations, and memory.

Mycelium as Collaborator

The music brings electronic synthesis into conversation with ancestral knowledge and inherited practices. In performance, this connection becomes tangible: a living mushroom, cultivated on a substrate, is connected to a modular synthesizer, translating its electrical activity into sound in real time. The mycelium becomes an active participant, with processes normally hidden beneath the surface entering the room as sound.

Microscopic image of oyster mushrooms.
A wooden table with assorted electronic music equipment, cables, a microphone, and oyster mushrooms.

A patch cable became an extention of the hyphae

Carrying subtle electrical changes from living tissue into sonic substrate

Both fungi and synthesizers speak through relationship, change, flow

Networks weaving into each other

Sound forming in the overlap of systems

A semi-modular set-up consisting of lion's mane fungi on top of a complex arrangement of electronic equipment, wires, and colorful digital devices.

From this musical research, a wider world unfolds. Diwa Spora brings together sound, microscopic photography and video, living materials, sculpture, installation, visual art, and performance. Images and moving footage reveal the intricate structures of fungi at a scale normally invisible to us, while physical artworks explore mycelial forms, growth and networks as both material and visual language. The album forms the sonic spine of this world, with each medium offering another way of experiencing the same underlying questions:

How do we connect?

Close-up of a fungi cap.
Hand-drawn illustration of various mushrooms on a forest floor, accompanied by handwritten notes about fungi using an ink pen.

How do we remember?

And what networks exist beyond what we can see?

Abstract metal sculpture resembling mycelium with thin metal rods, some wrapped with white fabric or fibers, arranged on a plain background.

The Mycelium Altar

Collaboration with Hizkia Pepijn

Close-up of a person's hand holding a thread, working on a delicate mycelium sculpture with internet-like webbing.

Weaving the threads, I could feel the movements and patterns

If I were a hyphae, which path would I follow?

An Evolving Ecosystem

Diwa Spora is an evolving ecosystem rather than a single artwork.

Music, image, living matter and physical space overlap to create an immersive world where the organic and electronic, the microscopic and human, and the ancestral and contemporary meet.

Cluster of beige oyster mushrooms against a black background.
Close-up macro shot of a fungi with dried natural material and small sparkling crystals or water droplets.
Close-up of the hyphae of a fungi.
Close-up of the gills of a parasol mushroom.
A close-up of the top of a fungi.

Diwa Spora invites us to listen beneath the surface, where unseen networks carry memory, exchange energy, and connect us to something larger than ourselves.