BIOTA BEATS Microbial Vinyl Records
Biota Beats is a microbial record player that translates bacterial growth into sound. Historically music has been experienced and stored in a variety of forms. Take the vinyl record for example - where sound is represented by small engravings scribbed onto a material. These engravings are static representations. Utilizing biology, we can create a new medium for music - enabling us to experience a record that grows and evolves over time.
Software
A demo of the sonification implementation can be viewed at http://biotabeats.com/visualization.html
WETWARE
Our custom biota-records were fabricated and distributed at a workshop held at Gingko Bioworks, as part of the Youth Science Initiative.
Team: Virj Kan, Yixiao Jiang, Eric Vanwyk, Alex Guo, Thrasyvoulos Karydis, Keerthi Shetty, Shannon Johnson, Matt Mendoza, Mary Maggic, Ani Liu, David Kong