Stinkhorn
How Nature's Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
$59.99
- Hardcover
208 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2025
Summary
A meditation on sound, inviting us to listen through the nose and open the mind to the musical potential in unpleasant odors.
The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus, bursting out of a sub…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781915609274 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1915609275 |
| Author: | Sion Parkinson |
| Publisher: | Sternberg Press |
| Imprint: | Sternberg Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 635g |
| Dimensions: | 248mm x 181mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Sion Parkinson
Si n Parkinson is an artist, musician, performer, and writer. Originally trained as a sculptor, he received his PhD from University of Leeds in sound studies where he was an Amanda Burton scholar. He is a Research Fellow at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. He lives with his family in his hometown near Dundee, Scotland.
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