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It is probably not a practical way of storing music, but a biologist has come up with a unique record that contains real living creatures. Mikael Hwang is a scientist who also works as an electronic musician under the name Psients. Looking for a way to combine his love for biology and music, he created Signal, “the first playable, live music medium in the world to both include and be mediated by a microorganism.” In this case, living yeast cells.
The Signal EP is part of an art exhibition in South Korea. Its original form features an obelisk that contains a special petri dish and a special record. Some kind of material–we don’t know what–made it possible to record the vibration of the yeast cells. That was then turned into audio.
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Signal has since been transferred to a standard 12-inch record for distribution and sale. Please enjoy. Meanwhile, read more at MixMag.
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