Free Art/Science Fellows Symposium at University of Chicago Wednesday May 8th

[Josiah Zayner]

If you are in the Chicago area you should come to the Art/Science Symposium. It is free and there should be wine and cheese. It is at the Logan Arts Center on the UChicago campus starting at 5pm Wednesday May 8th.
https://arts.uchicago.edu/content/graduate-students-present-arts-science-collaboration-projects-may-8-0


I will be presenting a project that I built "The Chromochord". It is a musical instrument that interacts with a protein (AsLOV2 domain) using light and then uses the predictable and stochastic parts of the chemical reaction to create music. It uses a single wavelength(~5nm bandwidth) spectrophotometer based off the Arduino Due and can read 12 wells in a plate in ~300ms(filtering algorithms and stuff takes time) much faster than any commercial plate reader I could find. I will make the code available later this week after I clean it up for public consumption. I have built two versions an instrument that can be played(with buttons and looping and lots of cool features) and also an instrument that interfaces with software like MAX/MSP for complex musical arrangements. I have been working with a composer Francisco Castillo Trigueros to create some cool music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWzcJpgpyFw


Thanks,
Josiah Zayner
http://DoItOurselfScience.blogspot.com