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Slime mould DNA Music

You wouldn't think there was music in me. But beautiful and strange music has been developed from the sequence of nucleotides in my DNA.

Using special software John Dunn selected and/or developed synthesizer sounds to be used to create music by translating the individual DNA codons, the strings of guanine, adenine, cytosine and thymine, into the proteins they form, taking account of "start" and "stop" signals.

The amino acids of each protein sequence plus chemical properties of the amino acids and the bases themselves were interpreted as pitches, pan positions, transpose values, tempi, tone colors and so on. The realization of the piece was developed manually, until the piece was right.

Listen to slime mould DNA (copyright by John Dunn) in RealAudio.

Slime mould life cycle

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