Mycology and Music at Ellingsen Woods
Merlin Sheldrake is a British biologist who holds a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge University, where he specialized in underground fungal networks in tropical rainforests. He's the author of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures — a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller that won both the Royal Society Book Prize and the Wainwright Prize. He's also a research associate at Vrije University Amsterdam, and works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks. If you haven't read Entangled Life yet, I recommend it unreservedly.
Cosmo Sheldrake is Merlin's brother. He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and field recordist. He grew up surrounded by both music and a deep curiosity about the natural world. Cosmo was trained in classical piano from the age of four and perhaps most famously to the internet his song "Come Along" reached tens of millions of people through a global Apple iPhone commercial and recently appeared as a book here.
