Fruit flies
Catchy title. I wonder if that is a nour+verb or an adjective+noun.
I’ve never been one to care much for or about computer programs creating music. By this I don’t mean annotation programs that write down what a composer specifies, but a program that creates on its own. Now there comes along something in between. This fellow has written that produces music based on encoding a natural phenomenon. Specifically, he encoded the genome of a fruit fly: Drosophila melanogaster. The result surprised me; it is hauntingly pretty.
He also wrote a short story for Analog Science Fact and Science Fiction magazine and describes the idea behind the story here. The tune itself can be downloaded from here as an MP3 file. I used QuickTime to play it on my Mac.
From Boing Boing.
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