Non-Human Rhythms 2 is the second release of a series of live recordings featuring different micro-organism and there bio-electrical activity translated into a sound process. In this release listen to 4 tracks of slime mould sonification.
Develop at Bauhaus University as part of the Phychip project
Live recorded with the Energy Bending Lab and the Phytracker. @Interspecifics 2015. Paloma López + Leslie Garcia.
Sonification process:
The PhyTracker is an open computer vision system, designed under processing software allowing open sound control communication with varios musical and visual softwares. The system creates arrays of branches and fallows the growing behaviour of physarum. The data is later translate into analog frequency format or midi notes.
In the next example the software is detecting the creation of new branches:
The data sets are store in .csv format together with the image time-lapse, there is also a real time functionality. The fallow example is a sonification made with the system interfaced with a 400X amplification microscope and a canon EOS camera.
The code is free and opensource and is accesible on github.
4 comments
Larry Evans says:
Oct 6, 2015
Amazing to hear these sounds. These beings are living in a different frequency of time.
Diane says:
Oct 7, 2015
I think this is charming, intellectually and musically fascinating, and altogether wonderful!
Jon says:
Oct 17, 2015
Very interesting….link to Github does not work
we says:
Oct 30, 2015
just fixed!