The Chromochord: Biotech's first musical instrument plays proteins like piano keys

[Josiah Zayner]

I made a post on this a while ago but it is starting to receive alot of press and I started an Indiegogo sooooo Shameless self-promotion.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=biotechs-first-musical-instrument-plays-proteins-like-piano-keys-slideshow

A video I made is in this one.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/5/4694324/biophysicist-uses-proteins-to-create-chromochord

and trying to do an Indiegogo:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-chromochord-a-protein-nanotechnology-based-bioelectronic-musical-instrument/x/4544718

Any questions feel free to ask.

[Nathan McCorkle]

so a finished device could look just like any other effects pedal,
without the user ever seeing the LED and sensor, right, or does the
protein solution go bad/need replaced often? My dad's a professional
musician, I'd be interested to know what he thought of this kind of
'analog' sound.

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[Josiah Zayner]

So I have figured out ways to dry it and turn it into more of a material but I think part of the cachet is actually using protein in solution. Yeah the protein also does go bad on the hours timescale which sucks. My original goal was just to create some sort of interaction between a person and a protein, the musical instrument is just the way I decided to go about it because really for me as a human being most of my communication is done through sound.

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