Pioneer Works Music Resident Alum Lisa Schonberg and artist-scholar Allie Wist will be leading a field-based class focused on listening to mushrooms and listening as mushrooms. We primarily encounter mushrooms through vision but most of mushrooms’ labor and energy are hidden from human sensing. How might we hear them? What can we speculate about what mushrooms hear and sense? What do these sounds tell us about fungal relationships with other beings? Reflecting on the famous scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind this class is designed to explore sensory ways of ‘knowing’ mushrooms. Mushrooms can be considered a “third kind” in their occupation of liminal spaces between life and death beyond plant or animal. They occupy a state between alive-ness and decomposition. In this participatory class at Green-Wood Cemetery environmental sound artist and composer Schonberg Wist and the New York Mycological Society will lead the group in ways to interact with mushrooms through sounding smelling feeling and listening. Date: This in-person workshop will meet on Sunday July 17 from 10am-1pm at Green-Wood Cemetery. There will be a rain date on Sunday July 24 from 10am-1pm. Price: $50. Audience: Open to all. Materials: Materials will be provided. Lisa Schonberg is a composer percussionist and environmental sound artist with a background in entomology and ecology. She started playing drums as a child & later studied ecology and entomology earning her Masters in Environmental Studies at the Evergreen State College with a focus on ant biodiversity in the Neotropics. Allie E.S. Wist is an artist-scholar and writer currently working on an Arts PhD with a focus on food and the environment. Her artwork encompasses photography radio broadcasts artifacts writing dinners and experiential installations that render futuristic speculation accessible through sensory narratives.