Stinkhorn: How Nature's Most Foul-Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen

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 subterrane...