More Reich than Glass? Scientist cracks musical code of Coronavirus

More Reich than Glass? Scientist cracks musical code of Coronavirus

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norman lebrecht

April 22, 2020

Researchers have converted the bug’s spiky protein structure into music in the hope of understanding it better.

Each amino acid was matched with a unique note and then converted by an algorithm into music.

MITS’s Professor Markus Buehler said: ‘You would need many different images, many different magnifications to see with your eyes, what your ears can pick up with just a couple of seconds of music.’

Listen here.

To my ears it sounds more like Reich than Glass.

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