You knocked on my door Without notice I let you in I had to And two drops later just two drops I am changed The more I resist you the more we collide The more … Continue reading
This is what a wrote during the class on sugar and water dissolving into one another: Sugar had its own way of going about life. She had everything organized, down to having the last grain perfected in her cubical form. … Continue reading
This week’s lecture and reading was fantastic. The reading for this week, The Power of Music, discussed how music is something that is not only heard, but felt with our bodies. As he states in the reading, we listen to … Continue reading
The way amino acids are connected through a chemical reaction was very interesting to me. I aimed to represent the peptide bond that connects them through that chemical reaction as the short and repeated pattern, which breaks the seemingly continuous … Continue reading
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to Professor Johnson’s lecture this week involving prions and music. I would never had thought that prions and other biological compounds could be converted into musical tones and notes. Professor Johnson’s presentation showing different sounds associated … Continue reading
This piece was created in Audacity by importing a raw data file of the PrPC and PrPSc proteins to explore what a healthy protein and an infected protein would sound like against each other. The PrPC file fluctuates in tone … Continue reading
My piece this week was a live performance piece, and because including an MP3 of my piece wouldn’t really fully demonstrate the live components of my work, I’ve included a Youtube video instead demonstrating my performance of the piece, as … Continue reading
In this short musical piece, I wanted to construct something that initially was almost completely patterned with a few blips. This is to represent the way that the proteins need to be folded nearly identically. I added piano layers to … Continue reading
Like my classmates, I found PD Extended difficult to use; I had a desire to study MIDI and other sonfication programs prior to this experience, and I still do, but not as much. I realized that making digital music is … Continue reading
I enjoyed the discussion we had in class on whether sonifying prions related to neurological disorders as Creutzfeldth-Jakob disease was ethical or not. Trying to create something possibly aesthetic out of something harmful may seem undesirable and malign. However, music … Continue reading