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Mr. Halek's Fungus * 2
    #18834126 - 09/12/13 08:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

By Thomas Morton

By the time he received his calling from God, Václav Hálek was already firmly established as a concert pianist and composer in the Czechoslovakian classical music scene. Fortunately for Hálek, the Lord didn't want the fervently Catholic maestro to join the priesthood or lead his fellow papists in arms against the godless communist state. Hálek's calling was a simple, occupationally aligned act of devotion. Listen to the music that mushrooms make and write it down for those of us who can't hear their songs. Which mushrooms, exactly? Every single damn one of them.

To date, Hálek has penned nearly 6,000 of these mushroom melodies, transcribed straight from the mushroom itself (or a picture of the mushroom itself when it's not growing season). This in addition to composing an entire "Mycocosmic Symphony"—which the Communist authorities dutifully banned under the "Louie Louie"-like suspicion that it must contain some secret subversive message they were missing. Because otherwise who the hell would write an entire symphony just for mushrooms? A man who spends every morning staring at one until it sings to him, that's who.

A handful of species from Hálek's fungal opus have been performed and recorded (archive.org has a nice selection of boletus and amaritas you can listen to here), but most of it sits in ever-growing stacks of score paper around the Hálek house, waiting as patiently as a dormant sclerotium to carve out a place for mushrooms in the plant-and-animal-glutted canon of Western music and seal their composer as the musical Lorax of the fungus kingdom.

Fungax.

Video @http://www.vice.com/Fringes/mr-haleks-fungus


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: sonamdrukpa]
    #18834344 - 09/12/13 08:56 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I liked this post, thanks!


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: Ripjohnnyc]
    #18834361 - 09/12/13 09:00 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

wut?


Unless he is on some serious trippy stuff i dnt think mushrooms are supposed to sing to you


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: Chuckfinely]
    #18834942 - 09/12/13 11:09 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

cool read, i think this guy has been mentioned on this site before though


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18834977 - 09/12/13 11:17 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Damn, you got a good memory.  The search function says he was in the Shroomery News service in 2008, 2004, and 2003.  And mentioned a handful of other times as well, none since 2008.


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: sonamdrukpa]
    #18835004 - 09/12/13 11:24 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

my memory sucks , if someone brings him up in 4 years, im sure youl remember too, i mean he write music he claims he heard from mushrooms


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18835543 - 09/13/13 03:12 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

what is so hard to believe about mushrooms singing?

everything is alive, hell, even rocks sing.
you kids might want to think about eating greater quantities of mushrooms.


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: jack_straw2208]
    #18836329 - 09/13/13 10:29 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Has he written any songs from the Psilocybes? I would love to hear those. :trippinbawelz:


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: Futuresight] * 5
    #18836347 - 09/13/13 10:34 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

play that fungi music, white boy


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18836374 - 09/13/13 10:41 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

does anyone know where you can download/view all the sheet music?


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: hidenseek1]
    #18837493 - 09/13/13 03:51 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

hidenseek1 said:
play that fungi music, white boy




:lol:

This is really cool, I want to hear some of them!


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Re: Mr. Halek's Fungus [Re: sonamdrukpa]
    #18837844 - 09/13/13 05:29 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I patiently listened to two of his pieces.  While skillfully played, I found them neither compelling, nor easy to tell from one another.  :shrug:

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