tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post4150224711700510131..comments2023-11-03T09:05:31.265-04:00Comments on Soho the Dog: The Song Is YouMatthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-77090432819631474132007-05-01T09:11:00.000-04:002007-05-01T09:11:00.000-04:00Dr. Alterovitz: thanks for the clarification, whic...Dr. Alterovitz: thanks for the clarification, which, in retrospect, I should have realized as being much more suited to diagnostic analysis. I still wonder: how immediate and real-time would this approach be in practice?Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-62626276796316829762007-05-01T08:43:00.000-04:002007-05-01T08:43:00.000-04:00Just a quick note that it wasn't DNA sequences, bu...Just a quick note that it wasn't DNA sequences, but rather gene expression that the project seeks to put to music... While the DNA sequences are static, the expression changes over time depending on state...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11371195722800252230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-73065305951364246832007-04-30T16:45:00.000-04:002007-04-30T16:45:00.000-04:00If you're not familiar with Wesley-Smith (I wasn't...If you're not familiar with Wesley-Smith (I wasn't), his <A HREF="http://www.shoalhaven.net.au/~mwsmith/welcome.html" REL="nofollow">Web page</A> can get you up to speed—music, politics, and organic farming in more-or-less equal quantities. (Some of his more recent multimedia works, written with his brother, look very intriguing indeed.)<BR/><BR/>And yes, excepting perhaps the electrode-helmet, that was more or less the impression I got from the article as to how this would be used diagnostically, though I'm not sure the geographic vagaries of one's family tree would show up <I>quite</I> that clearly. (If it did, you could plug me in and hear Jenny Lind and Luisa Tetrazzini singing a duo-version of Flotow's "Last Rose of Summer.")Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-35170496288131663012007-04-30T16:35:00.000-04:002007-04-30T16:35:00.000-04:00So let me get this straight, you walk into the off...So let me get this straight, you walk into the office to get your DNA set to music, they hook you up to some contraption (I imagine a metal helmet with electrodes), flip a switch and suddenly out of the speakers comes Albert Ketèlbey's 'In a Persian Market.' Chorus and all. Dr. Gil shrugs his shoulders and gives you a sympathetic look that says he understands and that yours is not the first great grandmother to tell a little pedigraic fib. I can't wait.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03323371750376649045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-7491788946673238792007-04-30T14:45:00.000-04:002007-04-30T14:45:00.000-04:00The composer Martin Wesley-Smith was encoding DNA ...The composer Martin Wesley-Smith was encoding DNA sequences into music twenty years ago. His piece "Beta-Globin DNA" for Fairlight synthesiser is the best known work, but DNA sequences turned up in some of his other electronic and acoustic works. <BR/><BR/>I remember him saying that some medical researchers first put him up to it, as a way of detecting repeated patterns or anomalies in large amounts of genetic data by "hearing" them.Ben.Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11879705585399028153noreply@blogger.com