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An original composition by the artist Segue that uses audio recordings from the GSC's laboratory equipment, robots and computers—to make music from the noise they produce. This album was commissioned as part of the celebration of GSC's 20th anniversary.
The vinyl art uses my cycling gene expression data visualization that appeared in Scientific American Graphic Science
Chromosomes
Music, genomes, split-flaps
In science one tries to tell people,
in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before.
in such a way as to be understood by everyone,
something that no one ever knew before.
But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.
—Paul Dirac, Mathematical Circles Adieu by H. Eves [quoted]
“Chromosomes” is a 6 minute demo, composed of 3 tracks based on the structures of human chromosomes 1, 21, and Y.
Our goal is to eventually create a full album with a track for each chromosome.
Our goal is to eventually create a full album with a track for each chromosome.
You can download Scala files for all scales.
Each file contains inline comments that provide additional information about each note degree. You may need to remove these before use.
! chr21 ! chr21 by-ratio 8 (46.7 Mb) 8 ! ! 1/1 ! @color=323232 @color-playing=fbb03b 56.516 ! 1 1.03 @color=15c2ff @color-playing=fbb03b 177.727 ! 2 1.11 @color=2493ba @color-playing=fbb03b 303.491 ! 3 1.19 @color=15c2ff @color-playing=fbb03b 395.850 ! 4 1.26 @color=ed1c24 @color-playing=fbb03b 453.843 ! 5 1.30 @color=ffffff @color-playing=fbb03b 585.581 ! 6 1.40 @color=323232 @color-playing=fbb03b 960.812 ! 7 1.74 @color=ffffff @color-playing=fbb03b 2/1 ! 8 2.00 @color=323232 @color-playing=fbb03b
In addition to Scala files, the archive contains CSV files that provide the relationship between bands (names, g-stain, positions), and scale degrees.
chr,chr_len,scale_note_degree,scale_note_cents,scale_note_pos,band_start,band_end,band_name,band_stain,band_color 21,46709983,1,0.00,0,,,,, 21,46709983,2,56.52,1550000,0,3100000,p13,gvar,15c2ff 21,46709983,3,177.73,5050000,3100000,7000000,p12,stalk,2493ba 21,46709983,4,303.49,8950000,7000000,10900000,p11.2,gvar,15c2ff 21,46709983,5,395.85,12000000,10900000,12000000,p11.1,acen,ed1c24 21,46709983,5,395.85,12000000,12000000,13000000,q11.1,acen,ed1c24 21,46709983,6,453.84,14000000,13000000,15000000,q11.2,gneg,ffffff 21,46709983,7,585.58,18800000,15000000,22600000,q21.1,gpos100,323232 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,22600000,25500000,q21.2,gneg,ffffff 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,25500000,30200000,q21.3,gpos75,828282 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,30200000,34400000,q22.11,gneg,ffffff 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,34400000,36400000,q22.12,gpos50,c8c8c8 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,36400000,38300000,q22.13,gneg,ffffff 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,38300000,41200000,q22.2,gpos50,c8c8c8 21,46709983,8,960.81,34654991.5,41200000,46709983,q22.3,gneg,ffffff 21,46709983,9,1200.00,46709983,,,,,
▲ CHROMOSOMES | Microtonal scales for each human chromosomes.