Pathogenica

[Tarantism]

i just found this on wiki and i thought you guys would be interesting. pretty cool!

 

Pathogenica is a relatively new form of experimental music, involving the use of genetic sequences of bacteria or viruses amongst other entities as the basis of note patterns in compositions.

These note patterns are typically translated by computers, before being played on electronic instruments or sequencers with additional effects being added after composition.

 

that tidbit certainly perqued my intrest so i looked for a full wiki page on it and i cannot find one. i also googled the name and i cannot find anything. nothing at all! has anyone here ever heard of this...? :) :eek:

[Tarantism]

Experimental music - Wikiversity

 

thats the original link by the way...

[Queso]

whoa you can probably convert them into MIDI files and then upload them straight to a track and assign them a virtual instrument!!!!!!!

 

FREEZTAR! Get in here! we need to figure this out!

[Queso]

This is perfect for psytrance.

[freeztar]

Interesting concept...

I wonder how this works. Are the DNA sequences converted from the waves or from the G-C-A-T sequences? How is rythym handled?

Here's an example of E. Coli DNA that I found:

http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/D/DNA_sequence.gif

 

You would need some kind of special software for converting.

 

Here's a site I found on the subject:

DNA & Protein Music

 

I'm still investigating this so if I figure out how to do this at home, I'll let ya'll know. :P

[Tarantism]

dude yes i went here:

 

http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSnZlW_amg

 

and that is exactly what the wiki page was describing...downloading now...

[freeztar]

Here's some free software I found that will let you convert DNA sequences to MIDI! :P

 

Algorithmic Arts Software: Bio2MIDI

 

I'm off to try it out now...

[freeztar]

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

 

I created a little mp3 demo for the first little bit (2 mins).

Musical DNA

 

Here's the MIDI.

[Tarantism]

cool man. im really curious how it works...how did you go about making this track?

[Queso]

import the midi file to your editing software and assign the midi notes to a virtual instrument of some sort.

[Queso]

damn I wish it worked for mac!

That's a really interesting ambient transmission ya got there freezy ;]

[Tarantism]

that would be nice...

[freeztar]

Isn't there Windows emulation software for Macs?

The program is pretty sweet! You don't even need a midi editor to play the sequences as it has a player built-in which you can assign to different General Midi instruments. Of course, the example I posted was done in Tracktion and uses some heavy software synthesizers. :shrug: