[Fungi]

John Cage was a mushroom enthusiast. He music was ethereal, crazy, random, and avant garde at the time, but he could not pick wild mushrooms according to his random notes. A stark incongruous repudiation of his music. Play all your discordant music you want, but you cannot pick wild mushrooms in the same manner, it will kill you.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/a-mushroom-related-brush-with-mortality-how-john-cage-fell-for-fungi/ar-BB189oE5

[flaglady47]

“John Cage was a mushroom enthusiast.”

He had a book he wrote which was in the Music Library I worked in when very young at UIUC, and I remember flipping through the book. I was about his musical life but interspersed throughout was mushroom lore, his second passion next to experimental music.

[a fool in paradise]

sounds like a funguy

[a fool in paradise]

“Put simply, for Cage, music was music and mushrooms were mushrooms. “

Wasn’t music. Was artistic wankery