Mushroom Playing Keyboard Leaves Millions in Awe

A fascinating wild mushroom music video is going viral online showing a fungus out in nature physically hitting the keys of a musical keyboard.

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We look out at this massive universe and we can easily see the beautiful hand of God in every single corner of creation. The Lord put a unique life force into every living thing and it is truly amazing when modern technology allows us to see His design working in real time. So it makes me feel so joyful to see how even the smallest things in nature praise Him in their own way.

It all comes from an amazing clip posted by a channel called ‘BionicandtheWires’ where they took their music gear out into the woods. They found a plain wild mushroom growing right out of the soil and they attached tiny wires to the top of its cap.

Now these wires do not hurt the living fungus at all but they are built to read the small electrical pulses moving inside of it. Most people just plug these signals into a computer to make digital sounds but this creator did something completely different and much more fun. They built a little mechanical robot machine that holds wooden sticks right above an electronic keyboard sitting in the dirt.

So every time the electricity shifts inside that little mushroom the robot arms move and physically hit the keys. I was honestly blown away when I watched it because it sounds like a real song being played on a xylophone with fast tempos that change completely on their own.

No human hands are touching those keys at all because the music is entirely driven by the natural life pulsing inside that tiny plant.

Now you might be wondering how a mushroom playing keyboard is even possible or if this same energy is inside other things around us. The truth is that every single living creature on earth has bio-electricity running through it because that is how cells talk to each other.

Humans have it in our brains and nervous systems and plants have it in their leaves and mushrooms have it in their underground roots. This special process is called biodata sonification which just means taking those hidden electrical shifts and turning them into musical notes.

It works a lot like a medical machine that reads a human heart rate but instead of drawing a line on a screen this machine turns the pulses into physical motion. Every tree and flower and bush around your home has these same electrical currents moving inside them right now.

When we look at this we see how science can explain the robot parts but science can never create the spark of life that makes the whole thing run.

Our God is the master designer who keeps that little mushroom alive in the quiet woods and He is the exact same God who watches over you and me every single day.

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