A short history of scientists and artists who are using proteins to make music.

1. How Scientists and Artists are Discovering Musical Patterns in Protein Structures
Markus Buehler
Amino acid
synthesizer
Prepared for Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous of 10 September 2019 – San Francisco
by
Willard G Van De Bogart

2. Beautiful Humans Anirban Bandyopadhaya
https://www.beautifulhumans.info/anirban-bandyopadhyay/
Nanao BrainScientists:
Anirban Bandyopadhaya
Joel Sternheimer
Markus Buehler
Zhao Qin
Hans Geesink
Dirk Meijer

3. Anirban Bandyopadhaya - Microtubules 2014
Sound synthesis - Van De Bogart - McVeety
Additional research by Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose

4. Joel Sternheimer - Theoretical physicist - France
https://studiotomassarceno.org/about/tps://studiotomassaraceno.org/about/
G D V E K G K K I F I M K C S Q C H T V E K G G
the first 24 amino-acids of human cytochrome C.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281103244_EPIGENETIC_REGULATION_OF_PROTEIN_BIOSYNTHESIS_
BY_SCALE_RESONANCE_Invited_lecture
Cells healing themselves
with sound:
Plants
Animals
Humans
Wave dynamics
Scaling waves
Louis de Broglie
Endorphine
Signal protein

5. Spider web protein music by Markus Buehler and Zhao Qin - MIT
1, 2bjy 1.00 1.008378436 1.030715836 1.042870685 1.05679907 1.197504816...;
2, 1mfr 1.00 1.004021038 1.008026787 1.009678011 1.013072195 1.345060086...;
3, 1jre 1.00 1.008745375 1.031036908 1.062318442 1.087392594 1.199064306...;
4, 1ji4 1.00 1.003761123 1.017001498 1.062119683 1.0803596 1.256459652...;
5, 1qgh 1.00 1.031281534 1.038941382 1.067944837 1.091459499 1.213160872...;
6, 1l8h 1.00 1.003180136 1.024905972 1.091780571 1.110586185 1.250007645...;
7, 1jxv 1.00 1.017980002 1.06477999 1.094991285 1.119377427 1.1889582...;
8, 1gl6 1.00 1.009662722 1.082759991 1.091428921 1.142830933 1.166131548...;
9, 1hzd 1.00 1.025563404 1.03620463 1.108292817 1.129330642 1.226722319...;
10, 1a0c 1.00 1.013072195 1.078479039 1.105632511 1.186573097 1.201082469...;
11, 1fwu 1.00 1.056248662 1.06667584 1.104730453 1.150643672 1.214812097...;
The format of the data file (attached as Supporting Information) that contains the vibrational
spectrum of all proteins analyzed is
[PROTEIN ID], [PROTEIN ID IN PDB] [f_0/f_0] [f_1/f_0] [f_2/f_0] [f_3/f_0]...;

6. Analogy of protein structure to musical structures – Markus Buehler
http://web.mit.edu/mbuehler/www/papers/BioNanoScience_2011_3.pdf

7. Amino acid synthesizer
by Zhao Qin and Markus Buehler
MIT scientists have converted the molecular structures of proteins
into audible sound that resembles musical passages. Reversing the
process means they can introduce variations and convert the music
back into new proteins.
AI and the human

8. Protein Synthesizer
Zhao Qin – Markus Buehler
Protein synthesizer MAX plugin
Quantum wave mechanics
Protein
Folding
options
Van De Bogart - DeGeorge
Abelton 10 Live
Geesink and Meijer

9. Protein synthesizer Max plugin graphical representation for Abelton Live 10 DAW

10. Protein Synthesizer Control Panel

11. “Quantum aesthetics entails the
creation of both and art and a
literature based on the most
revolutionary findings within
quantum physics and the psychology
developed after it.”
Maria Caro and Andrés Monteagudo
The World of Quantum Culture
Artists:
John Dunn
Willard Van De Bogart
Gregorio Morales
Combining sound with quantum thought forms

12. Protein folding model by Hans Geesink and Dirk Meijer
The integration of the human brain and the quantum field

13. Visualizing wave dynamics in space effecting protein molecules
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/315706536_The_Folding_of_a_Life_Proteins_On_the_role_of_long-
and_short_range_electromagnetic_pilot_mechanisms
Hans Geesink and Dirk Meijer
The folding of life proteins

14. Life Music: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1576622?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
John Dunn
A collaboration with biologist Dr. Mary Anne Clark, produced
from the primary and secondary structure of protein
sequences, using software and synths.
In each piece, pitch is determined by amino acid identity and
instrumentation is chosen according to protein folding pattern,
with different instruments representing regions of alpha-helix,
beta-strands and turns. Lysozyme 254L
Protein Data Base
Lysozyme

15. Compositional techniques using electronic synthesizers
Man machine interface – AI verses the human - What happens to us when we listen to the sounds of proteins

16. Designing sonic wave shape topologies with the AniMoog synthesizer
Designing folding patterns using
the AniMoog wavetable synthesizer

17. Creating wave shapes on a Waldorf NAVE synthesizer to a protein synthesizer

18. Combining sonified elements in the universe with Synthscaper synthesizer
by Igor Vasliev
Quasar
Pulsar
Comet

19. TH
ORNG
SH
OW
CH
Creating neuroacoustic architecture
Combining amino acid sounds, phonemes and scales
Topological space
using 44 phonemes
from the English
language
20 Amino Acids Erv Wilson micro tonal scale
Hebdomekontany

20. Creating space music: combining Thought forms, Protein sounds, Sonified galactic, and Voice
Quantum Thought forms Synthesizers Cosmic/Space sounds Protein Sounds
Idea Instrument Direction Tone Voice
xenolinguistics
Individual sounds
Combined sounds

21. The xenosphere of our existence
We are at the threshold of discovering ourselves through sound