Music of the Helixes

DNA is an ungraspable thing to the human brain. It’s a long sequence of letters that are interpreted in the body to a sequence of amino acids. Even if we see it visualized, we can’t interpret it. What if we turn it into a song?

Music of the Helixes is an experiment in turning the human genome into music. A custom processing application translates the RNA sequence of the human X genome into a sequence of notes. These notes are then sent via MIDI to a synthesizer running in Ableton.