A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team, led by musician and engineer Markus Buehler, have employed AI to convert the shape of protein structures found on SARS-CoV-2 into a musical equivalent resulting in a score with a “pleasant, even relaxing, tone”. By capturing the arrangement of amino acids and protein chains into audible intersecting melodies, the researchers hope to give scientists a way to hear structures that are too small to be seen and provide another tool to better understand the virus.
Call for Contributions: Artistic Research in Practice
Calling for contributions to an edited book exploring the impacts of artistic research and practice-based research PhDs upon creative practice.