Biography

Once upon an early morning, a wind swept through the forest floor spreading seeds and spores throughout a sleeping city. As the sun rose from behind the hills, a gentle rustling of twigs and grasses could be heard as two oddly formed mushrooms peeked their heads through the cold earth from below and found themselves tucked tightly between two roughly cut squares of concrete. At first, they thought they'd be able to free their fibrous fruitbodies and flee the mania that unfolded before them.  But as the sun slowly cast its spell upon the concrete and glass, its rays piercing the cold, dark shadows of tower blocks and polluted parks, the mushrooms began to hear strange, foreign sounds as they arrived at their omnicaps.  As the intensity and variety of sounds grew, and with the mushrooms unable to escape the mother earth (myceli-mum) from deep down beneath the concrete, they decided there and then not to pull on their super reflective omnicap shields to shy away from this experience, but to absorb every soundspore, channeling it down through the myceli-mum, down deep to be archived and shared with any fruitbody who may wish to listen.  And so the story began...

The Story of 

Kinokophone collects and composes sounds, stories and imagery from around the world. Kinokophone

take their name from the Japanese word for mushroom. Mushrooms are a product of intricate

connections that lie beyond the surface, with roots in folklore and imaginary worlds, much like the work

we produce.  In short, our name kinokophone encapsulates what we like to do, which is is to record and communicate ideas with an unaffected sense of wonder for what is growing up around us, unearthing the intertwining connections that lie beneath the surface...

Amanda, a curious, crepuscular fruitbody...

Jon, a wild Leicestarian polypore...

Kinokioppo, unidentified species  sprouts out from spider’s webs