If proteins could talk, what would they say? Josiah Zayner still doesn’t know — but he does have a sense of what they’d want to sing. That’s because Zayner has developed a new musical instrument that relies on infinitesimally small plant proteins to produce melodies.
Zayner, who recently completed a PhD in biophysics at the University of Chicago, has long been interested in merging biology with electronic interfaces. The driving force behind his instrument, called the chromochord, was a desire to harness “these incredible proteins that power our lives every single day, but that nobody can see and that nobody really thinks about,” he says. “I want people to experience those somehow.”
via The Verge
